Keith Knight | The Libertarian Institute

How Empires Perish: Why Republicans Should Be Anti-War

by Keith Knight | Nov 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/lDtN9wat_IE Ideology has always been vital to the continued existence of the State, as attested by the systematic use of ideology since the ancient Oriental empires. The specific content of the ideology has, of course, changed over time, in accordance with changing conditions and cultures. In the Oriental despotisms, the Emperor was often held by the Church to be himself divine; in our more secular age, the argument runs more to “the public good” and the “general welfare.” But the purpose is always the same: to convince the public that what the State does is not, as one...

Black Man Found Not Guilty After Shooting at Cops in Self Defense!

by Keith Knight | Nov 21, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/fS42XkWIrb8 Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man’s prosperity and survival, but so also is exchange.... If anyone wishes to grasp how much we owe to the processes of exchange, let him consider what would happen in the modern world if every man were suddenly prohibited from exchanging anything with anyone else. Each person would be forced to produce all of his own goods and services himself. Th e utter chaos, the total starvation of the great bulk of the human race, and the reversion to...

Loathing the Corporate Press is the Moderate Position

by Keith Knight | Nov 20, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/z9Xp9AYN-J0 ... I see the central conflict as not between classes, (social or economic), or between ideologies, but between Power and Liberty, State and Society. ... It is only through and by state action that “class” conflict can arise. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. Conceived in Liberty v. 1, p. 10; p. xvi When All The Media Narratives Collapse by Andrew Sullivan Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Odysee Spotify Minds BitChute Flote Archive

The Scam Republicans Keep Falling For! w/ Olivia Rondeau

by Keith Knight | Nov 17, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/BfV-OwA-_S4 ... the Constitution has proved to be an instrument for ratifying the expansion of State power rather than the opposite. ... any written limits that leave it to government to interpret its own powers are bound to be interpreted as sanctions for expanding and not binding those powers. In a profound sense, the idea of binding down power with the chains of a written constitution has proved to be a noble experiment that failed. ...The libertarian system would meet this problem by scrapping the entire notion of creating a government — an institution with a coercive...

What is Critical Race Theory? – James Lindsay, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Nov 14, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/a-_zXuMkTWw ... the whole point of politics is to “divide” people, to separate people by principle and ideology and to have them slug it out, each trying to gain a majority support of the population. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 289 Find James Lindsay here: https://newdiscourses.com/ Buy Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity- and Why It Harms Everybody on Amazon here Odysee BitChute Spotify Minds Archive Flote

How the West Got Rich – Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Nov 11, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/iChl-tfUahU A change in how people honored markets and innovation caused the Industrial Revolution, and then the modern world....People had to start liking “creative destruction,” the new idea that replaces the old...Europeans and then others came to admire entrepreneurs like Ben Franklin and Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates. Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D. Deirdre N. McCloskey is a professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Odysee BitChute Minds Spotify Archive...

Libertarian Lessons from ‘The 48 Laws of Power’. Pete Quiñones, Popular Liberty, & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Nov 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/UOgAAui-DOQ In all societies, public opinion is determined by the intellectual classes, the opinion molders of society. For most people neither originate nor disseminate ideas and concepts; on the contrary, they tend to adopt those ideas promulgated by the professional intellectual classes, the professional dealers in ideas. Now, throughout history ... despots and ruling elites of States have had far more need of the services of intellectuals than have peaceful citizens in a free society. For States have always needed opinion-molding intellectuals to con the public into...

The Truth About Slavery – Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

by Keith Knight | Nov 6, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/0tur_Zpvl8I Slavery is one of the oldest and most universal of all human institutions. Slavery has existed among peoples around the world, as far back as recorded history goes— and archaeological explorations suggest that it existed before human beings learned to write. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (Basic Books, 2009) p. 20 Odysee BitChute Spotify Flote Archive Minds