The Tenth Amendment Center's Michael Boldin calls it "the Horton rule." (It is my rule, but I didn't name it that.) It goes like this: Because libertarians are so dang good on everything -- better than the left on things the left is good on (e.g.: gays, drugs, cops,...
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The Berlin Wall: Its Rise, Fall, and Legacy
by Doug Bandow | Nov 22, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
Democratic Party candidates for president advocate socialism. Young adults view collectivism as a serious alternative to capitalism. Most anyone under 40 has little memory of the Berlin Wall, probably the most dramatic symbol of the most murderous human tyranny to...
The Kennedy Autopsy 2
by Jacob Hornberger | Nov 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Fifty-six years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead on the streets of Dallas, Texas. The official story is that a lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald, without any motive, committed the assassination. During the past several decades, however, the...
The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch of Government
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 22, 2019 | Featured Articles
School children learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In actual practice, however, there are four branches of government. The fourth is what for decades now has been called a "headless fourth branch of...
Why Environmentalism Has Failed – Freedom Philosophy
by Brandon Kirby | Nov 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Pollution is a clear-cut violation of the non-aggression principle. Acid rain, plastic waste, greenhouse gases, runoff fertilizer, clearcutting that causes floods — all of these impact other people in a negative way. Herein lies the question: Can these issues be...
Cops Dump 10 Rounds Into 82yo Partially Deaf Man Because ‘He Couldn’t Hear Them’
by Matt Agorist | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Gary, IN — An 82-year-old “granddaddy” is currently fighting for his life after police opened fire on him Sunday night. According to the family, the elderly victim is partially deaf and couldn’t hear the police commands, so they filled him full of holes. According to...
Should we interpret the Constitution so the feds can oversee everything affecting more than one state?
by Rob Natelson | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Constitution lists powers it grants to the federal government, reserving the rest in the states and the people. Over the last few decades, some federal powers—particularly those embodied in the Commerce Clause, Taxation Clause, Necessary and Proper Clause, and...
Microsoft Saw What a Four-Day Workweek Can Do
by Chloe Anagnos | Nov 21, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
One of the most groundbreaking characteristics of a developed economy is the freedom entrepreneurs and firms have to develop their companies as they see fit. It was precisely this freedom that allowed Henry Ford to experiment with the 40-hour workweek in an age when...









