Libertarian educator Tom Woods famously quipped that “no matter who you vote for you end up with John McCain.” Unfortunately Woods was proven right for about the thousandth time this past week, as Washington again showed us that it is all about war. First, we learned...
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Build Back Braver
by Scott Shearin | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Featured Articles
2020 is coming to a lumbering close. Thankfully right? I see so many celebrating the end of a miserable year. I don’t think the New Year matters much though, and I’m always the optimist in the room. I remember reading somewhere last February, can’t remember who said...
How Coronavirus Put the Nanny State on Steroids
by Jim Bovard | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
The COVID pandemic this year has profoundly transformed the relationship of government to American citizens. Constitutional leashes have been obliterated as state and local politicians and officials have issued endless decrees that were vastly more effective at...
How State Legislators Can End Our Endless Wars
by Stewart Jones | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While President Trump was negotiating yet another peace agreement this week — this time between Israel and Morocco — his enemies beat the drums of war in their ongoing effort to overthrow the America First foreign policy. It’s sad that throughout the entirety of...
An Anarchist Take on the Religious Clauses
by Tommy Raskin | Dec 15, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses bar Congress from establishing religions and interfering with free religious exercise. How should anarchists feel about that? Well, the first clause should positively thrill anarchists, what with anarchists’ well-documented...
Bitcoin vs. Wall Street
by Tom Luongo | Dec 14, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The big worry among the bitcoin perma-bears is the threat of government ‘making it illegal.’ The latest bogeyman on this front is none other than U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Rumors float that he’s considering outlawing ‘self-custody wallets,’ in effect...
Nothing Delivered: Trump’s ‘Antiwar’ Deception
by Connor Freeman | Dec 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump seems uninterested in ending any “endless wars.” Before leaving office, he could and should do so in Afghanistan, for example, where U.S. forces—while losing the longest war in our history—have led a brutal occupation for nearly 20 years....
Will Washington Review the Double Standards of Its Syria File?
by Ahmad Salah | Dec 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the U.S. domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East developments, especially the U.S. role...