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Lessons from Douglas Murray’s ‘The War on the West’

by Keith Knight | May 9, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles

“We appear to be in the process of killing the goose that has laid some very golden Eggs.”- Douglas Murray, author of The War on the West “[A]s recently as 2006, about 18% of social scientists self-identified as Marxists.”- Bryan Caplan, Ph.D., The Prevalence of Marxism in Academia (March 21, 2015, EconLib.org) I was always ashamed to be a Westerner. A civilization, I was told all through my public schooling years, uniquely contributed to the world in the following ways: slavery, child labor, bad working conditions, greed, sexism, genocide, racism, McCarthyism, and a bunch of useful idiots...

Against Abortion: A Christian/Libertarian Alliance. Kerry Baldwin & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 8, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/kAy14b8yX7k On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and struggling to breathe, and the medical personnel pretended not to notice. Soon the crying stopped. This harrowing event forced me to think more seriously about this important issue. That same day in the OB suite, an early delivery occurred and the infant born was only slightly larger than the one that was just aborted. But in this room...

Dr. Ron Paul on Abortion

by Keith Knight | May 6, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/8ws0V_SyIyA On one occasion in the 1960s when abortion was still illegal, I witnessed, while visiting a surgical suite as an OB/GYN resident, the abortion of a fetus that weighed approximately two pounds. It was placed in a bucket, crying and struggling to breathe, and the medical personnel pretended not to notice. Soon the crying stopped. This harrowing event forced me to think more seriously about this important issue. That same day in the OB suite, an early delivery occurred and the infant born was only slightly larger than the one that was just aborted. But in this room...

The Art of War – Book Summary & Analysis. Andrew Pierce & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 4, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/4hJ0u1qo5I8 The MORAL LAW causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War Andrew Pierce is the author of the AntiTax Strategy and the Theory of Archotropism. Follow Andrew Pierce on Twitter and SubscribeStar. Odysee BitChute Flote Archive Spotify

Politics and Deception in Wartime. Foreign Service Officer (ret.) Peter Van Buren & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 2, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/3UxdR0MRArY The Libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must ... be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, pp. 119 Peter Van Buren is a retired United States Foreign Service Officer and author of Hooper’s War Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq. He also writes...

How to Effectively Fight Global Poverty. Bryan Caplan & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Apr 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/FrAG6MpikUg Free markets are awesome because they give business incentives to do good stuff that sounds bad. Governments are awful because they give politicians incentives to do bad stuff that sounds good. Since the correlation between what IS good and what SOUNDS good is quite low, this is a huge deal. - Bryan Caplan, Ph.D. (December 27th, 2021) Dr. Bryan Caplan is the New York Times Bestselling author of Open Borders, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education, has been blogging for EconLog since 2005. Labor Econ...

The Mark of a Civilized Society. Mark Skousen & Keith Knight

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

https://youtu.be/HX9SZHeDaoY Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. - Mark Skousen, Ph.D. and Jo Ann Skousen, Persuasion vs. Force (1992) Mark Skousen earned his Ph.d. in monetary economics at George Washington University, is the editor of Forecasts & Strategies, author of 25 books, and is the founder of FreedomFest. Save $50 if you use the...

For a Christian/Libertarian Alliance. Kennedy Edwards & Keith Knight

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

https://youtu.be/-W_jY1iaW4I ... it is hardly “charity” to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. Indeed, this is the direct opposite of charity, which can only be an unbought, voluntary act of grace. Compulsory confiscation can only deaden charitable desires completely, as the wealthier grumble that there is no point in giving to charity when the State has already taken on the task. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1319 Kennedy Edwards is the co-host of The State of Ohio podcast and Libertarian Party of Ohio, Trumbull County Chair....