Imagine if someone you didn’t know, who lived 3,000 miles away, had a say in who you could or couldn’t marry. Would you think that was crazy? What if that person could dictate what you were allowed to put into your body? Since that is a reality why isn’t it just as...
Libertarianism
Hope Ain’t in the Box
by Jacob Kim | Oct 26, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. Romans 8:24-25 (NASB) While people generally believe that they favor innovation,...
The Bogus “Consensus” Argument on Climate Change
by Robert Murphy | Oct 24, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
One of the popular rhetorical moves in the climate change debate is for advocates of aggressive government intervention to claim that “97% of scientists” agree with their position, and so therefore any critics must be unscientific “deniers.” Now these claims have been...
Economic Creationism
by Logan Chipkin | Oct 23, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related phenomena has no choice but to take seriously Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. That is, all of the apparent design and purposefulness that we...
Who is to Blame for the Dangers of Being a Cop?
by Steve Anthony | Oct 23, 2019 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
My colleague sent me a blog post of the wife of a cop who was lamenting the dangers that her husband faces in his profession. I get it, it’s got to be nerve-racking having a loved one with a job where there are serious health and life risks. But this blog post...
What if the Police Don’t Identify Themselves?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 21, 2019 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Anyone who pays attention to cases involving police shootings, especially those that result in a fatality, has noticed that the narrative we first hear coming from the press soon changes. It is no different in the case of Atatiana Jefferson, who was gunned down...

TGIF: Let’s Make Sure the Nazis Killed in Vain
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 18, 2019 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I don’t know how many times I've heard that if we don’t stand by Israel, the victims of the Nazi Judeocide will have died in vain. I knew something was wrong with that claim, but for the longest time I couldn’t put my finger on it. Now I think I can. The claim is...
To End the Wars, Attack the Right From the Right
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
Sadly, the antiwar and anti-national security state inclinations of American liberals and progressives have weakened since the days of President George W. Bush. Partisan incentives during Barack Obama’s presidency combined with the FBI-CIA-Democratic Party-media plot...