A dubious theory held by some libertarians has been knocking about. It goes something like this: The claim that government-controlled land is actually unowned—and thus not properly subject to government rulemaking—would lead to consequences that reasonable people...
Libertarianism
No, Your ‘Doggo’ Doesn’t Have Rights
by Oscar Grau | Jun 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Whoever argues in favor of granting rights to animals, has first accepted that humans have rights and believes that animals must also be recognized as subjects of rights. And only someone who has a notion of what having rights means can meaningfully ask for this. Yet...
TGIF: Individuals, Not America, First
by Sheldon Richman | May 16, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Let's hear no more about America First! It's a fraud, a cover for collectivist nationalism, and a distraction from what matters. (It also looks like camouflage for Trump Family First, but let's take it at face value for now.) On foreign policy, America First does not...
TGIF: On Value and Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | May 2, 2025 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided observation. Ego sum, ergo aestimo: I am, therefore I value. (HT: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Ludwig von Mises.) Next: to think is to act....
The Public-School Chickens Come Home Again
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether parents of children in government schools have a constitutional right to opt out of programs that "expose" their kids to LGBTQ materials. Once again, the chickens have come home to roost. By that, I mean...

Achieving Self-Governance For Every American
by Jeb Smith | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
"[Under Democracy], a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men...

The Incoherency of Socialist Morals
by Owen Ashworth | Apr 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Novara Media are a very prominent Marxist organization in the British political scene. Their commentators get invited on mainstream political shows regularly to offer their opinion on what is a reliably bland political discourse. Their takes are different and do offer...

TGIF: The Income Stagnation Myth
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 21, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Many people, including some free-market advocates, think Americans are materially worse off today than they were in the 1970s. Some subscribers to that view blame globalization, that is, free trade in goods, which means in labor services. By any reasonable measure,...