The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November. The election will occur amidst the vast economic...
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What Libertarians Must Learn from Duverger’s Law
by Scott Duryea | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured Articles
A recent episode of Michael Malice’s “Your Welcome,” featuring guest Dave Smith, lamented Libertarian Party politics. Malice notably despises the party and made a great point that it is easier for libertarians to get elected and make some noise from within either the...
A Strategy for Forcing the State Back
by Per Bylund | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As libertarians, we like to discuss two things: what could be and what is wrong with society today. Some of us are intrigued by the promises of a free society, no matter if we advocate the total abolishment of the State or wish to radically cut back on its powers. It...
Video: Cops Kill Six Year Old While Attempting To Shoot Unarmed Woman
by Matt Agorist | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
The Threat of a Digitized Currency
by Ron Paul | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. This is just one of the problems with the proposed “digital dollar” or “fedcoin.” Fedcoin was...
America’s Hobbesian Tyranny
by Jim Bovard | Jul 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Almost 400 years ago, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a book scoffing at tyrannophobia—the “fear of being strongly governed.” This was a peculiar term that Hobbes invented in Leviathan, since civilized nations had feared tyrants for almost 2000 years at that...
It Is Time to End Federal Executions
by Rob Faust | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Last week the federal government executed three inmates. These marked the first federal executions in 17 years. The long lapse in executions may make this seem like a non-issue to some people but all executions are inherently wrong. The Attorney General’s directive...
A Lost Year – Where Do You Go From Here?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
The point of no return may have been reached. The effects of the government-mandated shutdowns due to Covid-19 on businesses—especially small businesses—may not be known for months, even decades, but anyone who is paying attention is beginning to realize we are...