What gives some people the right to rule others? At least since John Locke’s time, the most common and seemingly compelling answer has been “the consent of the governed.” When the North American revolutionaries set out to justify their secession from the British...
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Will the United Kingdom Trip Us Into a War with Russia?
by Ron Paul | Jul 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Less than two weeks after NATO members reaffirmed allegiance to Article 5—that an attack on one member was an attack on all members—the UK nearly put that pledge to the test. In a shockingly provocative move, the UK’s HMS Defender purposely sailed into Crimean...
American Historians Misjudge American Presidents
by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
"They adored him as no man in a democracy deserves to be adored,” Walter Lippmann wrote, describing progressive worshippers of Theodore Roosevelt in 1916. American historians suffer from the same malady, a predisposition to hero-worshipping chief executives (T.R....
F.A. Hayek, the Progressive’s Devil
by Richard Ebeling | Jul 7, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
There is the ideologically captured mind that squeezes all the complexities, diversities, uncertainties, and serendipities of life into one limited dimension of cause and explanation. One such mind is that of Wellesley College historian, Quinn Slobodian, who sees...
Police Department Awards Family Over $1 Million After Cop Executes Their 17 Year Old Son
by Matt Agorist | Jul 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It has been over six months since officer Chase Bebak-Miller shot and killed 17-year-old Anthony Cano as he complied with the officer’s orders. So far, no charges have been brought and the only ones receiving scrutiny from the police are family members who have been...
TGIF: Defend the Enlightenment!
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 2, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The libertarian philosophy is embedded in Enlightenment liberalism. This is clearly seen in its commitment to free inquiry (reason) and free speech, the full realization of which, I argue, requires complete respect for individual rights, including property rights....
Celebrating Independence Day with Illegal Fireworks
by Ryan McMaken | Jul 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
It’s almost Independence Day, and for many Coloradans, that means a trip to Wyoming to buy illegal fireworks. That is, it’s time to buy fireworks that are illegal in Colorado, but legal in Wyoming. In fact, this fact so well known to everyone that Wyoming officials...
The NSA Is Spying on Tucker Carlson (and Everyone Else)
by Jim Bovard | Jul 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was mocked on social media this week for stating that he had been told that the National Security Agency was reading his private emails and spying on him. The usual suspects called Carlson paranoid, because there are so many checks and...