A recent article in Fortune speaks to a computer scientist named Andrew Chien who asserts that the new wave of OpenAI data centers will be consuming as much energy as New York City and San Diego combined when they are operating at full capacity during extreme weather....
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Albert Jay Nock, Radical Individualism, and the Remnant
by Alan Mosley | Oct 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Albert Jay Nock’s life spanned the transformation of the United States from the laissez‑faire America of the late nineteenth century to the managerial state of the New Deal. Born on October 13, 1870 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Nock studied Greek and Latin in the...
Greasy Poles and Slippery Promises
by Owen Ashworth | Oct 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Not averse to rearranging the proverbial chairs on the deck of the Titanic, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, has reshuffled the members of his government. This comes after his deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, was forced to resign after...
TGIF: Hooked on the State
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 10, 2025 | Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Since the government partial shutdown began, we've been seeing panicked headlines about states being denied federal money for promised or already-started energy and infrastructure projects. Other sorts of subsidies are also in jeopardy. You'd think that not getting...
Liberty: Natural, Practical, and Divine
by Dan Sanchez | Oct 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What is the best ethical framework upon which to hang the case for liberty? The libertarian debate over this question has long been cast as a contest between natural rights and utilitarianism. Murray N. Rothbard championed the natural rights position, most thoroughly...
Israel, A Dependent Nation in the Heart of the Middle East
by José Niño | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On October 6, 1973, as Israel’s leaders observed the solemn rituals of Yom Kippur, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated surprise assault across the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. Within hours, Israel’s much-vaunted military machine was reeling. Entire...
Libertarian Realism: Justin Raimondo’s Challenge to Empire
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the late Justin Raimondo, co-founder and longtime editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote in 2011 that the anti-interventionist movement needed a “big picture” framework, he was attempting to distill decades of polemic into a theory of international relations....
‘Culture’ Is the Weakest Argument for Immigration Controls
by Thomas Eddlem | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
To hear border hawks tell it, European countries like Ireland are “overrun” with immigrants and have torched the culture. “We won’t even have a country any more,” people will tell you in a panicked voice about immigration, as if Ireland is one example of how the...