Just last week, I finally got around with starting to read Crime and Punishment, Fyodr Dostoevsky’s famous novel about a Saint-Peterburg student’s murder of an old lady pawnbroker. The murderer and book’s main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, got the idea from a fellow...
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Florida Judge Uses Compelled Speech to Perpetuate Pulse Nightclub Myth
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a jaw-dropping example of government imposing woke mythology on an individual citizen, a Florida judge has ordered a man who defaced an LGBT mural to write a 25-page essay centered on a thoroughly false premise—that the 2016 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in...
TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Champions of individual freedom have been properly disturbed by how much power governments at all levels have seized since the...
Support Ukraine’s Independence? Then Support Secession Everywhere
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By now, it should be abundantly clear to all that the official U.S. regime narrative on Ukraine is that one is supposed to be in favor of Ukrainian political independence. That is, we’re supposed to support the idea that Ukraine is a separate state that is politically...
End No-Knock Raids So Cops Stop Killing Innocent Homeowners
by Matt Agorist | Apr 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the land of the free—thousands of times a year—American police officers kick in doors, smash windows, deploy tear gas, and explode flashbang grenades all to serve a single, often unarmed, individual with an arrest warrant. These militarized affronts on the homes...
It’s Time We Get Answers About the FBI’s Involvement In the OKC Bombing
by John Kline | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles, OKC
This past week marked the 27th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. As the worst terrorist act committed on U.S. soil at the time, we all know the reported facts of the horrific event well: a 27-year-old Desert Storm-vet, Timothy McVeigh, acting with minimal help...
Non-Interventionism In the Only Sensible Path Forward
by Daniel Martin | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarians, Liberty-wing Republicans, and other opponents of non-defensive wars are popularly misconceived to have an “every man for himself” approach to both our economic views and foreign policy positions. Of course, this is patently false in both cases, but this...
Former NATO Commander Disguises War Propaganda as Novel
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2021, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, co-authored a fiction novel with Elliott Ackerman, another former U.S. military officer. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, imagines a kinetic war between the...