“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap,” Napoleon is reputed to have said more than two centuries ago. Boundless ignorance is also not a handicap, as Congress demonstrated last December by approving a 5593-page bill without reading it. Plenty of activists and...
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TGIF: A Refreshing Way to Think about Immigration
by Sheldon Richman | May 7, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
What I'm going to say about Chandran Kukathas's latest book, Immigration and Freedom, does not constitute a book review. Think of it instead as a book alert. Even having read only the preface and a couple of chapters, I am confident it is a book that fans of liberty...
An Honest General Admits the Goal: Permanent Hegemony
by Dave DeCamp | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said on Wednesday that the “rise of China” threatens the U.S.’ status as the dominant global military power, warning that the world could be entering an era of “potential international instability.” “Since the...
The No Good, Cowardly Chickenhawk John Bolton
by Dan McKnight | May 6, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When President Joe Biden announced a new date for the full withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, there arose like clockwork a great, melancholic moan from the same media figures who have been defending the war for the past 20 years. Perhaps none was so...
Police Numbers Plummet as Killer Cops Held Accountable
by Matt Agorist | May 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
New reports from across the country show that police departments are unable to keep their numbers up as fewer people are applying to be cops and record numbers of cops are seeking early retirement or simply quitting. There is a police recruitment crisis in America but...
The Military-Industrial Complex Has a Vote in War Too
by Ron Paul | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the...
No, Vaccine Passports Are Not ‘Libertarian’
by Ryan McMaken | May 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Earlier this month, the conservative magazine known as The Spectator published an article with the absurd title “The Libertarian Case for Vaccine Passports.” The online version now bears the title “Vaccine Passports Are a Ticket to Freedom,” but the physical print...
Should Libertarians Compromise with Taxing Marijuana?
by Laurence Vance | May 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Marijuana freedom is a good thing. The taxation of marijuana is a bad thing. Unfortunately, owing to the greed of spendthrift politicians, it looks as though we will have to take the good with the bad or not at all. Now, this does not mean that smoking marijuana is...