Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
Few twentieth‑century champions of laissez‑faire economics have cast a longer shadow than Leonard Edward Read. Born in Hubbardston, Michigan in 1898, Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and wrote nearly thirty books and hundreds of essays. He...
September is Constitution Month, a celebration of the document produced by the 1787 Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation. Predictably, whether Republican or Democrat, there was no shortage of public effusions in its praise. Even libertarians, inheritors...
For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths people will go to get their hands on it before their ideological opponents do. This is not rocket science, yet resistance to...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This quote, coined by the British Lord Acton during the late nineteenth century, is beloved by libertarians, and for good reason. In essence, it challenges the notion that any one person, regardless of...
“Capitalism is killing the planet—it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction.”- The Guardian The more disordered modern society becomes the more loudly we hear a common diagnosis: capitalism wanted this. Blaming capitalism has long been the status quo for the...
A new executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Prosecuting Burning of the America Flag” is generating considerable stir across the United States. The order, which was signed by Trump on Monday, instructs the Department of Justice to “prioritize the...
The Enlightenment produced many innovators, but few have left a legacy as contentious and influential as John Locke. Born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632, Locke wrote the political treatises that shaped England’s Glorious Revolution and later guided the...
