This article was originally published on June 17, 2021. Biden expressed the uniqueness of America, the idea of America: “You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We...
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TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not antibusiness, claimed that my article suggested that, unlike government regulators, businesses never get things wrong. Yet business failures...
We Need Beauty in Economics, and in the World
by Jeff Deist | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright played an important role in the design of this beautiful desert resort. I’m sure I’m not the only person here tonight who was introduced to his work through reading Ayn Rand. His touches are plainly visible in the stonework, wooden...
TGIF: The Scourge of Conscription
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
By now Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" ought to be such a cliche that it would hardly need to be said. And yet, it must be said -- often -- because many still haven't gotten the word. If the state is the adversary of liberty, as it...
This Constitutional Crisis May Collapse the Criminal Justice System Ep. 233
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/s1HycZUtZUI Patrick talks about a pending Wisconsin class action complaint regarding the lack of sufficient access to public defenders that is emblematic of a larger problem all across the United States. Episode 233 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is...
TGIF: Sam Harris on Saving Democracy from Voters
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 23, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Neuroscientist/philosopher Sam Harris caused quite a stir recently by defending the social networks' conspiracy (his word) to suppress news coverage of Joe Biden's son Hunter's smoking-gun laptop shortly before Election Day 2020. Harris said the suppression was...
The Franklin Cover-Up ft. Hunter DeRensis Ep. 232
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 19, 2022 | Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBGvWW6ad0 Hunter DeRensis joins Liberty Weekly to talk about the story of an alleged child prositution ring and possible coverup that came to national prominence over 30 years ago. A story which he detailed in his 2020 piece for The...
Abortion, Personhood, and the Beginning of Life
by Kerry Baldwin | Sep 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Pro-lifers contend that life begins at conception, and so the fetus has natural rights. Pro-choicers contend it cannot be known when a person(’s life) begins, and so the fetus has no rights. This is the fundamental issue at stake in the broader abortion debate. That...