David French, maybe National Review’s most reliably wrong scribe, issued this gem in response to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s residence in Florida: Imagine thinking federal police agents and lawyers will be “held accountable,” or that presidents are not above the...
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How to End the Culture War
by Keith Knight | Aug 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. There exist two blatant contradictions which roughly ninety-nine percent of intellectuals, journalists, and voters erroneously believe. On the one hand, they say that the free market...
Cops Sicced on 8 Year Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand
by Matt Agorist | Aug 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Asa Baker is an 8-year-old girl from Ohio with an overwhelming entrepreneurial spirit. Over the hot summer, rather than spend the days inside watching TV, Asa would set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to make some cash. “It’s fun and you get lots of people,”...
Public Choice ‘Conspiracy Theory’ and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
by John Weeks | Aug 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Murray Rothbard believed there are good conspiracy theories and bad conspiracy theories. He wrote about it for Reason Magazine in 1977. The bad ones are gratuitous claims made without evidence that tend “to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs,...
Did the FBI Win Joe Biden the 2020 Election?
by Jim Bovard | Aug 11, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted. There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the...
A Prize System as a Solution to Drug Patents
by Dakota Hensley | Aug 10, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Drugs are expensive. A vial of insulin can be up to $250 and a pack of pens can be up to $500. Every month, many families decide between life and food. For a country as rich as ours this is a disgrace and a moral crime. The culprit is the pharmaceutical monopoly. With...
‘Coup’ Means Whatever the Regime Wants It to Mean
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, many pundits and politicians were eager to describe the events of that day a s a coup d'etat in which the nation was "this close" to having some sort of junta void the 2020 election and take power...
We Killed the Last Justification for the Global War on Terror
by Dan McKnight | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There was a satisfying victory—not just for our soldiers and veterans, but for all Americans. One week ago it was announced that the U.S. government had assassinated Ayman al-Zawahiri, who along with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the key planner...