[T]the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man ... is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest in his own way.... The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty [for which] no human wisdom or knowledge...
Libertarianism
10 WWI Lies that EVERYONE BELIEVED ft. Keith Knight Ep. 183
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 20, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwZ2tDuXpc Keith Knight joins me to discuss how the media manipulates public opinion to wage war against enemies foreign and domestic, real and imagined. These are 10 lies from WWI brought to you by Arthur Ponsonby's Falsehood in...
TGIF: Get Rich Quicker!
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 17, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.” --John Stuart Mill, 1828 We mustn't let the wrongdoing of politicians and bureaucrats blind us to the good...
Nullify COVID-19 Mandates Ep. 182
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 12, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeXKRdws8cY I imagine that many of you, like me are feeling angry and demoralized about Biden's vaccination mandates last week. Many people I know are worried and their number one question is: What can I do? In this episode, I highlight...
Really?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog, Economics, Libertarianism
Someday our descendants will laugh with embarrassment at the people today who pore over weather records prepared to proclaim an existential threat from a fraction-of-1-degree rise in the average global temperature over any previous year "on record," that is, unless...
How the Woke Left Censors You Without the Government’s Help
by Sam Jacobs | Sep 1, 2021 | Libertarianism
For as long as tyranny has existed, free speech has remained under attack. But the federal government isn’t directly infringing that freedom these days. The mantle has been taken up by the woke left, which is using its influence over corporate America and its vast mob of bizarrely coiffed devotees to badger you into submission.
TGIF: Safety Can Be Hazardous to Our Health
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 27, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Kudos to Glenn Greenwald, a rare leftist voice of sanity on so many issues, for opening his recent article this way: In virtually every realm of public policy, Americans embrace policies which they know will kill people, sometimes large numbers of people. They do so...
Your Right to Bodily Integrity
by John Whitehead | Aug 24, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t...