Ron Manners’ ideas 
and adventures

Articles: Language of Leadership

Why you should download this free ebook!

Back in 2009 I published Heroic Misadventures: Australia, Four Decades, Full Circle in which I retold some of my experiences in the gold-mining industry...

Get up off your knees!

Enough of these ceremonial apologies, please! Is it time that we learned to think for ourselves instead of reacting to peer group pressure?...

Defending Competitive Capitalism

Recently I have been asked by two of our Mannkal Alumni almost identical questions covering the same difficulty of defending ‘free market capitalism’...

Open letter to family, friends and supporters

Dear family, friends and supporters, It is with great pleasure that I humbly share with you the news that I have been included...

Remembering Karl Hess

One of the events that brightened up my ‘Coronavirus Besieged Easter’ was the Reason.com release of Jesse Walker’s interview with Daniel Tucker entitled...

Awakening Possibilities!

Awakening Possibilities! (Our task is simple) While I’m currently pre-occupied with writing a piece on “why our next generation should take the Coronavirus...

I miss Jon Utley

Each November, in New York City, Jon Utley and I have shared a meal.  We also invited a younger person, or two, to...

Coronavirus Era – 8 Rules

Don’t get sick. You don’t want to be a burden on others, as they are already burdened by the fall-out from the current...

Ron Manners plays the long game

This review of Ron Manners’ The Lonely Libertarian was written by Benjamin Marks, and was originally published on his website Economics.org.au. Buy your...

Why another book?

Anthony Cappello (Connor Court Publishing) suggested I write a book about myself. My immediate response was, “I’ve already done that, and it’s called...