Candidate Joe Biden promised not to abuse his executive authority or shut down the economy in order to fight the coronavirus. Instead, he said he would "listen to the science." An order limiting the ability of Americans to travel across state lines would violate all...
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The Banned Books of the Cold War-Era Soviet Union
by Kym Robinson | Feb 17, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”- George R. R. Martin The authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union has been buried by apologist revisionism and has been romanced in the...
Help Support the Libertarian Institute!
by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
Bitcoin is King
by Tom Luongo | Feb 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Bitcoin is winning. Period. In fact, it may have already won and the people arrayed against it, no matter how powerful, are finally beginning to realize this. This week saw a slew of major announcements which all point in this direction. Of course the big news...
How To Make Housing Less Affordable
by Bradley Thomas | Feb 15, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Few things in life are more certain than the costs of something exploding whenever government embarks on programs to make them “affordable.” It took just five years after the passage of the “Affordable Care Act” for insurance premiums on the private market to more...
Idaho Cop Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Immobile Cancer Patient
by Matt Agorist | Feb 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In one of the most disturbing instances of police sexual misconduct we’ve reported here at the Free Thought Project a retired police corporal was arrested this week for repeatedly raping a woman so sick with cancer that she couldn’t fight back. Scott Wayne McMikle,...
The Military Occupation of Washington DC is a Ticking Time Bomb
by Jim Bovard | Feb 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
“Tyranny in form is the first step towards tyranny in substance,” warned Senator John Taylor two hundred years ago in his forgotten classic, Tyranny Unmasked. As the massive National Guard troop deployment in Washington enters its second month, much of the media and...
TGIF: What Now, Libertarians?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 12, 2021 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The prospects for individual liberty and the required rollback of the government seem as bleak as ever, but we can't let appearances, no matter how pervasive, be decisive. The spark within most people--the longing to chart one's course in life--never really dies....









