Let’s do a thought-experiment. We’ll start with a choose-your-own-adventure. Pick a mass-shooting event from recent U.S. history, but try to pick one where the shooter matches your personal demographics as closely as possible. As a white, male American of a similar...
Libertarianism
No Country Has a ‘Right to Exist’
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In the weeks since 2,500 Hamas militants went on a murder and kidnapping rampage in southern Israel, a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations has erupted across the United States and around the world. These displays have only grown in size and number as Israel’s...
Liberland Has a Right to Be Free
by Aaron Sobczak | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Along the Danube River in South-Central Europe rests a unique parcel of land. This roughly 2.7 square mile piece of land is sandwiched between Croatia and Serbia. Before the breakup of Yugoslavia, the autonomous regions within the federal republic established their...
TGIF: A Market for Law?
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 6, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished....
We Must Physically Remove the Bears
by Walter E. Block | Oct 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
I often visit North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We have some new neighbors here. They are ruining the neighborhood. They don’t throw wild parties. They are not loud. Their kids don’t rob anyone. They never get drunk; well, not so that you would notice. The...
TGIF: Limited Government’s Bait and Switch
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In a fundamental respect, libertarian minarchism (minimal, or limited, government) and market anarchism (or anarcho-capitalism) have something important in common: neither can guarantee individual rights. But there's a big difference: unlike market anarchism,...
Protesting Abortion Clinics? Not So Fast, Libertarians
by Benjamin Seevers | Sep 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In the summer of 2022, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture on inflation. Funny enough, pro-abortion activists protested this wonderful talk (for whatever reason), standing on the sidewalk directly adjacent to the building, shouting at and harassing people as...
The Lockean Delusion
by Rudolph Kohn | Sep 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The classical liberal revolution, starting in the 1600s and continuing through the 1700s, created a new ideal for government. Instead of hoping for just rulers who limited the use of their sovereign power, thinkers like Algernon Sidney, John Locke, and many of the...