https://youtu.be/5uKAzDMvefI Dave of the Law of Liberty Podcast and I dissect Rothbard's specific views on fundamental legal concepts. Dave is a graduating law student and alumnus of Mises University. He is one half of the Law of Liberty Podcast with his cohost...
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TGIF: U(nspeakably) S(adistic) Foreign Policy
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 12, 2021 | Economics, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If you had set out to construct a foreign policy designed to impose indescribable suffering on millions of innocent people around the world, you'd have a tough time coming up with anything more systematic and effective than U.S. foreign policy. An inventory of U.S....

TGIF: That Old Minimum-Wage Magic
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 5, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
You don't have to actually think that legislating and raising the minimum wage will help low-skilled workers earn more money. That's not the point. The point is to display your correct political religion. Today favoring stepping the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is...

Individual, Not National, Self-Determination Should Be the Goal
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 5, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman
Jeff Halper, the American-born, Israel-based veteran human-rights activist is heroic. He has dedicated his life to working for justice for the Palestinian victims of Israeli settler colonialism, much of that as the director of the Israeli Committee Against House...

David Friedman: What Anarchists Can Learn From Other Legal Systems Ep. 151
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 3, 2021 | Justice, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/Ut4X7B1sHII Keith Knight and I tag teamed an interview with David D. Friedman about his newest book, "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours." I asked him some burning questions I had from what I consider to be a Liberty Weekly Classic--"Non-State...
Bastard Jurisprudence: The English Common Law Perverted
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 16, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
There are a few rites of passage in law school. Many of them occur in constitutional law. For instance, constitutional law is where most students will learn for the first time that judicial review, the power to declare laws unconstitutional, was not a power granted to...
A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism
Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there's a more...
Why Politics Is So Acrimonious
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
If we wish to understand what's wrong with today's politics, we ought to consider something F. A. Hayek pointed out long ago. It should have been obvious, but it escapes many people: namely, the more power government officials have over our lives, the more people will...