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Trump Bombs Iran: Bovard’s First Penalty Flags

by | Jun 22, 2025 |

And a few hours before Trump formally entered the war against Iran…

UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia

UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia

by | Jun 20, 2025 |

What if there were a country with no state, no taxes, no politicians, and no public institutions? That’s the premise of Utopyc, a novel that answers the need—long identified by Rothbard—for a libertarian narrative capable of moving, convincing, and inspiring.

The protagonist, Gabriel Dan, is a journalist who discovers the existence of Utopyc, a small country where everything public has been entirely abolished, and society is organized through private contracts, voluntary agreements, and cooperation without coercion. Coming from our own dystopian world, Dan travels to investigate and is soon surprised to find that unrestricted liberty does not lead to chaos, but to harmony.

Through the journalist’s eyes, readers visit hospitals, schools, courts, security systems, defense services, and even media outlets—all functioning without any state intervention. Along the way, he also discovers a new kind of humanism that reclaims the dignity of the free individual.

Utopyc is not fantasy or theory, but a narrative and realistic representation of how a truly libertarian world might function. Readers see how liberty gives shape to a more prosperous, peaceful, and humane society. This imagined country includes places like the Museum of Liberty and the Museum of Beauty, showcasing the cultural richness of a society without coercion—and the birth of a new humanism.

For centuries, utopia has been monopolized by collectivist thinking. This novel shows that only a stateless society can truly be utopian. If you were moved by Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, Utopyc may be your next must-read.

You can also explore other related titles at http://www.utopyc.net/ such as Do You Like Being a Slave?, a powerful critique of the current Western political status quo from a libertarian perspective, and Cold Monster, a dystopian take on the immediate future of the West.

The paperback edition of Utopyc is available at Amazon and the book’s website.

I would love for the readers of the Libertarian Institute to enjoy this unprecedented journey to the land of the libertarians. Only when liberty is seen in action can one truly grasp the magnitude and dignity of this fight.

Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way

by | Jun 19, 2025 |

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Today is Juneteenth.
 
I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR
 
They became good communists on that day.

The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)

by | Jun 18, 2025 |

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***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance***

The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track record of bumbling an incompetence at the galactic level continues to amaze observers around eh world.

For decades, mountains of red tape have stifled innovation and slowed the defense industrial base’s ability to respond to emerging global threats and even basic requirements.

  • The new Air Force One is now five years behind schedule, delayed until 2029 or later, despite the contract being awarded in 2018.
  • Nine Navy ship programs (not just individual ships, but the entire procurement program) are between one and three years behind schedule.
  • The first flight of the Air Force’s new ICBM, the Sentinel, is already two years behind schedule and 37% more expensive than originally promised.
  • The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is in port for a scheduled overhaul and refueling stint—work that normally takes four years to complete—yet the carrier now won’t be ready for at least another year, marking over five years out of service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-modernizes-defense-acquisitions-and-spurs-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

The disaster continues apace.

The report was sent to the four congressional defense committees in mid-January. Navy Secretary John Phelan will begin his fiscal 2026 budget testimony Wednesday before the House defense appropriations subcommittee. 

A Navy spokesman couldn’t provide more details on why the five systems were listed as low performers, citing the reasons as “controlled unclassified information.”

Systems listed as meeting their goals, or best performing, were the AN/SPY-6 air and missile defense radar for Aegis destroyers, the MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone, KC-130J transport and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance aircraft.

The hapless Constellation frigate program joins a host of underperformed and acquisition disasters that march in glory with the US Navy unblezihe track record since 1991 of ship-building acquisition disasters.

Aside from the frigate, the list of low performers cited in the report includes General Atomics’ Advanced Arresting Gear or AAG installed on the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, and Northrop Grumman Corp’s new extended range anti-radar missile.

A GA spokesperson said the Navy would respond for comment. A Northrop Grumman spokesperson referred comment to the Navy.

Meanwhile, the program manager of Boeing Co.’s unmanned MQ-25 Stingray drone designed to refuel Navy jets, which was also named in the report, said the company has owned its challenges. The program’s initial production has been delayed by at least two years because of issues with some of the aircraft’s design and manufacturing process, according to a Pentagon assessment.

“We are on track for our first flight later this year,” said Troy Rutherford, Boeing’s vice president for the program.

Another low performer listed in the report is Textron Inc.’s “Ship To Shore” Marine Corps hovercraft, which has had previous propeller blade and gearbox issues.

Ryan Schaffernocker, senior vice president for marine systems at Textron, said in a statement: “Our team and suppliers based across the US have established an efficient production line that has delivered 13 craft with 14 more in production or test.”

Frigate Touted By Trump Is Among Navy’s ‘Least Performing’ Programs

 

Be Careful What You Ask for

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

You wanted America First. You got it.

Did you think it wouldn’t be conceived in national collectivist terms?

The clue’s in the name. It’s America First, not Americans First.

Phony Noninterventionists

by | Jun 17, 2025 |

Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today’s “left” is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it’s anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah, blah, blah. If left-wingers (Marxists, heavy or light) were in charge, they’d likely support foreign intervention under the right conditions, e.g., fighting apartheid in South Africa (which indeed was bad) or Pinochet (also bad) in Chile, or saving Maduro (bad too) from a middle-class uprising in Venezuela. In the 1960s and 70s the so-called radical left favored the communists in the Vietnam War. It was not just against U.S. intervention, as many libertarians were. In the 1970s Noam Chomsky supported Vietnam’s intervention in Cambodia; he also favored leaving some U.S. troops in Syria. I note that Max Blumenthal has lately called for intervention against Israel (bad). (By whom I don’t know.)

If the left is interventionist at home, then why wouldn’t it also be interventionist abroad? It has no principled objection to government power. It just wants aggressive force put to “good” use, such as managing other people’s peaceful market relations.

Libertarians are the only comprehensive noninterventionists. The “left” may want the libertarians to tag along to demonstrate that its opposition to the U.S. empire is broad-based. That would make libertarians its useful idiots. I prefer another role, as antiwar libertarians. But deep down, the “left” likely thinks the libertarians are knowing or misguided shills for what they disdainfully call “corporate America”—which they are not. The goal is freedom.

Maybe we libertarians should be called Compnons.

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