https://youtu.be/kyuxnMc-NSc In this episode of the podcast, Drew Cook joins me to share his story of recovery and to explain his first hand account of how the state creates addicts. Drew is the host of The Clean Libertarian and has been a long time listener of the...
Libertarianism
How Small States Enable Wealth: A Historical Analysis
by Jeffrey Herbener | Jan 25, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Deepak Lal, a prominent, pro-market, development economist wrote the following words in his 2004 book, In Praise of Empires: Empires have been natural throughout human history. Most people have lived in empires. Empires and the process of globalization associated with...
So, Tell Me, ‘Do You Hate the State?’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 21, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
This is a simple question. One you should ask yourself often (some of us ask and answer it everyday). Murray Rothbard’s short article quoted in the title is a masterpiece, but was written in 1977. The last remnants of the gold standard had just been done away with and...
Bastard Jurisprudence: The English Common Law Perverted
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 16, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
There are a few rites of passage in law school. Many of them occur in constitutional law. For instance, constitutional law is where most students will learn for the first time that judicial review, the power to declare laws unconstitutional, was not a power granted to...
Is Secession *Really* the Libertarian Answer? Ep. 148
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 16, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/nFQuYaFW1aM Some libertarian anarchists view even the act of secession as a political act which creates a new, albeit smaller, state. We examine the libertarian principles at play behind secession and examine the libertarian arguments against...
A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism
Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there's a more...
Why Politics Is So Acrimonious
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
If we wish to understand what's wrong with today's politics, we ought to consider something F. A. Hayek pointed out long ago. It should have been obvious, but it escapes many people: namely, the more power government officials have over our lives, the more people will...
No Sacred Ground
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism
The coverage of the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week was annoying to say the least -- what went on was no insurrection or attempted coup; it was just an end-in-itself temper tantrum committed by a bunch of idiots who never believed after Nov. 3 that they would...