Keith Knight | The Libertarian Institute

How Could Anyone Be an Anarchist?

by Keith Knight | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

The following excerpts are from the Keith Knight - Don’t Tread on Anyone podcast ***** Keith Knight: A lot of criticism of the free market is not unique to the free market. For example, there is greed, there is dog-eat-dog competition, it can disrupt & disorder, and there's no guarantee of my safety. Well, that all applies ten-fold to the state because you can't opt out of funding them and they have no competition. Do you think there's anything that uniquely applies negatively to the free market that justifies the existence of the state? Art Carden: I really don't think there is. I tend...

Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (feat. Scott Horton)

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

https://youtu.be/HKltpRa7a-8 ... the use of nuclear or similar weapons, or the threat thereof, is a crime against humanity for which there can be no justification...it is precisely the characteristic of modern weapons that they cannot be used selectively, cannot be used in a libertarian manner. Therefore, their very existence must be condemned, and nuclear disarmament becomes a good to be pursued for its own sake. Indeed, of all the aspects of liberty, such disarmament becomes the highest political good that can be pursued in the modern world. For just as murder is a more heinous crime...

Blackmail: The Franklin Scandal & Jeffrey Epstein (feat. Nick Bryant)

by Keith Knight | Jun 25, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Ff7aMFlxUlE Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary...“Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to...

6 Progressive Myths About History (w/ Lawrence W. Reed)

by Keith Knight | Jun 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/HsXj83JNUb4 In May 1939, Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr., one of Franklin Roosevelt's best friends, testified before the House Ways and Means Committee: "I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started… And an enormous debt to boot" (p. 2). When he spoke, unemployment exceeded 20 percent. - Gordon, David. Review of New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton Folsom, Jr. The Mises Review14, No. 4 (Winter 2008). Lawrence W. Reed is the President emeritus of the Foundation for...

PULSE Nightclub: Debunking the Conspiracy Theory Pushed by Obama, Trump, & Hillary

by Keith Knight | Jun 15, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/psaqOZ4nvEw [Y]ou have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here when my people are getting killed over there...You have to tell the U.S. government to stop bombing. They are killing too many children, they are killing too many women, okay?...[Y]ou need to know that they need to stop bombing Syria and Iraq. The U.S. is collaborating with Russia and they are killing innocent women and children, okay?...The air strikes need to stop and stop collaborating with Russia...[N]ow you feel, now you feel how it is,...

Debate: Democratic Socialism v. Libertarianism (Dr. Phil Armstrong v. Keith Knight)

by Keith Knight | Jun 13, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/CUWH-87Sdqo Without moral argument at his disposal, a liberal is left only with the tool of cost-benefit analysis, but any such analysis must involve an interpersonal comparison of utility, and such a comparison is impossible (scientifically impermissible)...Liberals will have to recognize that no government can be contractually justified... Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D., Democracy the God That Failed, p. 235 Host, Lev Polyakov's channel Full debate on Break the Rules Flote Archive Spotify BitChute

10 “Pro-Choice” Arguments – DEBUNKED (w/ Kristan Hawkins)

by Keith Knight | Jun 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/vgo8Uys-Xs4 The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness — the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable — that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments...

Hearing the Other Side: National Hall of Fame Teacher Interviews a Libertarian

by Keith Knight | Jun 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/3mDTfqt3Il0 ... one of the most significant ways in which the government could aid the poor is by removing its own direct roadblocks from their productive energies. Thus, minimum wage laws disemploy the poorest and least productive members of the population. Government privileges to trade unions enable them to keep the poorer and minority-group workers from productive and high-wage employment. And licensing laws, the outlawing of gambling, and other government restrictions prevent the poor from starting small businesses and creating jobs on their own. - Dr. Murray Rothbard,...

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