Originally published May 6, 2023, at Dissident Mama.
T.L. Hulsey is a retired computer programmer living in Mexico. He is the author of about a dozen books on subjects including political science, biography, translation, drama, and fiction. Hulsey attended, for two years each, the Catholic institutions of the University of Dallas in Texas and Fordham University in New York, majoring in economics and philosophy; however, he holds no degree. He blogs occasionally at LewRockwell.com but more recently at the Abbeville Institute.
The self-taught scholar’s latest work, “The Constitution of Non-State Government: Field Guide to Texas Secession,” released in November 2022 by Shotwell Publishing, has received praise from scholars including Drs. David Gordon, Clyde Wilson, Donald Livingston, Walter Block, and David R. Upham. You can purchase the ebook at Shotwell, and the paperback through the Mises Institute Bookstore and Amazon.
Hulsey explains kleristocracy and sortive democracy, how subjective theory of value can be used in symbiotic governance, the folly of universal values like equality, Americans’ fetish for representation a
nd fairness, why Texas is the right place for a decentralist order to be established, practical answers to common complaints against non-state polities, and more. It’s a conversation that’s part philosophy and part history, but one that leads to Hulsey’s “field guide” of cogent ideas and practical actions, revealing just how a peaceful political and cultural solution between people with intractable differences can be attained.
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Some links relevant to our conversation:
• “Human Action” by Ludwig von Mises
• “Anatomy of the State” by Murray Rothbard
• “A Review of ‘The Constitution of Non-State Government: Field Guide to Texas Secession’ by T.L. Hulsey” by Perrin Lovett
• “We’re all secessionists now” and “Fake secession for thee; despotism for me” by yours truly.
Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, and boymom. Apologetics practitioner for Orthodox Christianity, the Southern tradition, homeschooling, and freedom. Recovering feminist-socialist-atheist, graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and retired mainstream journalist turned domesticated belle and rabble-rousing rhetorician. You can read her blog at Dissident Mama.
