Rudolph Kohn

The Lockean Delusion

by Rudolph Kohn | Sep 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

The classical liberal revolution, starting in the 1600s and continuing through the 1700s, created a new ideal for government. Instead of hoping for just rulers who limited the use of their sovereign power, thinkers like Algernon Sidney, John Locke, and many of the American Founding Fathers aimed at a different goal: government derived from the idea of a sovereign people and carefully established to serve their interests. Many of these thinkers saw government as a necessary evil: a coercive force with just enough power to deal with criminals, enforce contracts, and defend the people from...

Five Faulty Arguments Against Secession

by Rudolph Kohn | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

As a state grows, it always tries to find more ways to limit the freedom of its people. In the best case, this might take the form of pervasive surveillance and perpetual nudges. Yet it rarely stops there. The state might decide to support ill-advised adventurism overseas, establish secret police to track and punish dissenters, or worse. Really, there's no limit to the atrocities a large state can visit upon its own people or the rest of the world. Keeping the state limited requires eternal vigilance, but the tendency is for it to grow out of control nonetheless. One obvious method to check...

Rudolph Kohn is a trained physicist who fell deeply into libertarian philosophy in graduate school and is now working as a freelance writer. He covers political and economic topics at marginalnonhermit.com and fiction at rnkfiction.blogspot.com

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by Keith Knight

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