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The Problem With ‘What is a Woman?’

by Keith Knight | Jun 4, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone, Featured Articles, Libertarianism

"Biological sex [is] binary. It's been binary for like a hundred million years, longer than that. Temperament is not binary, temperament or personality… people who talk about the diversity in gender are actually talking about diversity in personality and temperament…" – Jordan B. Peterson, What Is a Woman? (The Daily Wire, 2022) Why is it that the most powerful people on earth have been so fond of promoting “equality”? President Joe Biden, for example, has the ability to issue executive orders which hundreds of millions of people are legally bound to obey. Could anything be less “equal” than...

Hearing the Other Side: Libertarian Interviews Progressive (Bob Fenster & Keith Knight)

by Keith Knight | Jun 1, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/ehul8IB1E_8 Defenders of free enterprise do not believe in a perfect administration under a market economy. Rather, we do not believe in the possibility of such. To the extent imperfect decision-making is accepted, we then seek to solve for who has the best chance of answering the question correctly, he with local knowledge or he without? He who will reap the consequences of his decision, or he who will not? Better decisions that are imperfect are superior to worse ones that are also imperfect. And accountability where a decision is made is better than no accountability...

I Attended a Marxist University and Became a Capitalist! (w/ Brad Polumbo)

by Keith Knight | May 29, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/NWssd_IuklE To the extent that the years between the end of World War II and today are a story of competing economic visions, the short version is this: Karl Marx was wrong, and Milton Friedman was right. Market-oriented reforms over the past several decades have cut severe poverty around the world by more than half. As late as 1980, more than 40% of the world’s population lived in severe poverty, according to World Bank figures. Now, that share is less than 10%. There is simply nothing else in the history of the material affairs of the world that can compare to that. -...

Baby Formula: How Government Regulations Cause Shortages. Eric Boehm & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 28, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/lNYVQ14SHiM ...[I]mports of infant formula are subject to tariff-rate quotas of 17.5 percent after certain thresholds are met. As the name suggests, tariff-rate quotas are meant to be set high enough that they effectively block additional imports by making it unprofitable to pay the tariff. - Boehm, Eric. "America's Trade and Regulatory Policies Have Contributed to the Baby Formula Shortage" (May 9th, 2022) Reason.com Eric Boehm is a reporter at Reason and was a national regulatory reporter for Watchdog.org. Find his article archive at Reason here and follow him on Twitter...

Wall Street Journal: “Hillary Clinton Did It”. RussiaGate Debunked Once and For All!

by Keith Knight | May 26, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

In short, the Clinton campaign created the Trump-Alfa allegation, fed it to a credulous press that failed to confirm the allegations but ran with them anyway, then promoted the story as if it was legitimate news. The campaign also delivered the claims to the FBI, giving journalists another excuse to portray the accusations as serious and perhaps true. - Hillary Clinton Did It, The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board) May 20th, 2022 BitChute Minds Flote Spotify Archive

How Two Socialists Became Libertarians. Jo Ann Skousen & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 24, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/_VXLOjD6708 The problem with political decisions isn’t that most of us don’t get our own way. It’s also that these decisions are usually imposed on us against our will, by threats of violence... Democracy, as we practice it, is unjust. We expose innocent people to high degrees of risk because we put their fate in the hands of ignorant, misinformed, irrational, biased, and sometimes immoral decision makers. – Jason Brennan, Ph.D., Against Democracy (2016; New Jersey: Princeton University Press), pp. 240, 230. Jo Ann Skousen is currently associate editor of Forecasts &...

Refuting the “Good War” Narrative. Dr. Thadeuss Russell & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 22, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/UXADj372WU0 On Sept. 1, 1939, 70 years ago, the German Army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, Britain declared war. Six years later, 50 million Christians and Jews had perished. Britain was broken and bankrupt, Germany a smoldering ruin. Europe had served as the site of the most murderous combat known to man, and civilians had suffered worse horrors than the soldiers. By May 1945, Red Army hordes occupied all the great capitals of Central Europe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Berlin. A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in...

Decriminalize All Capitalist Acts Between Consenting Adults. Dr. Chris Freiman & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/UiiFaw8nLLI This book argues that there’s nothing wrong with ignoring politics. To the contrary: you should disengage from politics to pursue more effective forms of altruism. Instead of watching presidential debates, attending city council meetings, and writing letters to your representative, you should spend your time on charitable activities that are more likely to change people’s lives for the better. - Christopher Freiman, Ph.D., Why It's OK to Ignore Politics, p. 3 Dr. Chris Freiman is a philosophy professor at William & Mary and author of Why It’s OK to Ignore...