Here's why democracy is a dubious idea. Government decisions are high stakes. It decides matters of war and peace, prosperity and poverty, freedom or oppression. Yet we let incompetent people steer the ship of state. Most voters are ignorant and process what little...
Editor's Note: This Murray Rothbard article was originally featured in the Spring-Autumn 1967 issue of Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Credit for the translation belongs to Mamela...
This article was posted shortly before the International Court of Justice ruled provisionally that Israel's Gaza military operation can plausibly be described as acts outlawed by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The ICJ...
Brian Gray has an essay, originally featured at the 2019 Libertarian Scholars Conference, making the case for libertarianism's non-aggression principle and the concept of an objective, universal morality at his blog Anarcholife.
A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to...
Javier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina, spoke the other day at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is essentially a group of people who want world affairs centrally planned by political authorities. They are...
Ignoring for the moment whether a state as such can have any rights at all (it can't), we can ask: does a state have the right to "defend" itself against the people it subjugates?
If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in ways consistent with other people's rights. Whether you call this moving around relocating, emigrating, or immigrating, doesn't...
