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...
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A Timely Warning: Reassessing Ted Galen Carpenter’s America’s Coming War with China
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 5, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter published America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course Over Taiwan in 2005, it was met with polite attention and quiet dismissal by most of the foreign policy establishment, which at that time was...
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...

A Neocon Will Always Lie to Get What He Wants
by Jack Hunter | Jun 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
When Barack Obama bombed Libya in 2011, a number of conservative voices spoke out against the president starting an unconstitutional war. Those Republicans insisted that presidents must go through Congress to declare war, as Article I, Section 8 of the U.S....

In Washington DC, It’s Still ‘Legal’ to Steal Your House
by Patrick Carroll | Jun 4, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An old family home in Washington DC has become the latest center in the battle over home equity theft—a practice where government can legally seize a property to cover an unpaid tax debt, sell it for far more than the amount of the debt, and then keep all the money...

The Failed Blackmailing of Glenn Greenwald
by Kym Robinson | Jun 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is not a new thing to try and shame or blackmail an individual into silence. Whether the evidence is real or doctored doesn’t matter; only the judgement of the public is needed to destroy a person's credibility. Governments and criminal organizations have deployed...
Marco Rubio’s Hunt for Renegade College Students
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel—which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s U.S.-based collaborators—many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended...
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute: “Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently...
Labour Learns a Trade
by Owen Ashworth | Jun 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
Recently, the United Kingdom signed two “free trade deals” with India and the United States. Adam Smith and David Ricardo would justifiably take issue with the label of free trade because these deals have not established what the term refers to in the classical...
TGIF: The Worst Are Already on Top
by Sheldon Richman | May 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a fool of herself by defining habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Justin Amash, the libertarian former congressman, posted an apt quotation...
America’s ‘Harsh Enlightenment’
by Matt Wolfson | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
Two months ago, Maria Kovalchuk, a Ukrainian model whose last known appearance was at a party in Dubai she attended with two unidentified men “who introduced themselves as representatives of the modelling business,” was found, ten days after the party, lying on a road...
Why Ending the War in Ukraine Is So Difficult Now
by Connor O'Keeffe | May 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As President [Donald] Trump wrestles to deliver on his campaign promise to end the war on Ukraine by helping to bring about a negotiated peace deal, the effort has, in part, been undermined by an escalating exchange of kamikaze drones by both sides. The last week...
The Rise of Labour, and What It Teaches Us
by Michael Ellis | May 28, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, History, Politics
Every period of history, and indeed every event, is both entirely unique and simultaneously a carbon copy of some earlier model. At the moment, the British party system is in disarray; a new insurgent populist movement is capturing the energy of a great body of...
The Media Is Falsely Labeling Ukraine-Russia Talks a ‘Failure’
by Ted Snider | May 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the former's invasion. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted...
Warmongering Republicans Are Not ‘Pro-Life’
by Jack Hunter | May 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Republican Randy Fine wants to nuke Gaza. He said so after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed in Washington DC on Wednesday. Fox News asked Fine on Thursday if he thought this could affect the ceasefire proposed between Israel and Palestine. Fine said...
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Israel Threatens Aid Flotilla Will Not Be Allowed to Dock in Gaza
Tel Aviv has threatened that the Gaza Freedom Flotilla will not be allowed to approach the besieged coastal enclave, according to The Jerusalem Post. A civilian activist group is sailing a ship to Gaza as Israel continues its genocidal starvation campaign against the...
Poll: Americans, Europeans Have Negative View of Israel
A new survey from Pew Research found that in the US and several European countries, a growing number of adults have negative views of Israel. Tel Aviv’s image in the US has declined throughout the 20-month onslaught in Gaza.
Risk of Escalation with Russia ‘Going Way Up’ Due to Ukrainian Attacks
President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Ukraine conflict said that recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian air bases have created a significant risk of escalation in the war.
Senators Push Trump to Endorse Major Sanctions Bill
A bipartisan coalition of Senators is lobbying President Donald Trump to endorse legislation that will add new sanctions on Russia. The bill has sweeping bipartisan support in the Upper Chamber with over 80 co-sponsors. According to The Hill, Senators are prepared to...
White House Taps Palantir for Government-Wide Database Surveilling Americans
In a move raising red flags with civil rights organizations, the Trump administration is working with tech firm Palantir to develop a database for numerous government agencies to collect and store information on all Americans.
Erik Prince Working With Haitian Government in Fight Against Armed Groups
The US-installed government in Haiti has turned to American mercenaries, including Blackwater founder Erik Prince, to fight against armed groups that now control nearly all of Port-au-Prince. Drones operated by Prince’s firm have killed hundreds, but no high-value targets.
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Interview: A Rabbi, a Jewish Historian, and I Explain the Israel-Palestine Conflict
I was a guest alongside Rabbi Dovid Feldman and Dr. Zachary Foster to discuss the true nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Immigration Conversation with Jacob Hornberger
The Royal Navy Continues To Turn the Lights Out
The Royal Navy continues to become irrelevant with a bone in its teeth. The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) for the Royal Navy has been published and it is just as bad as you think it will be. Another buzzword salad buffet with zero calories and promises that will...
Anti-War Blog – Apparently, not evil. Just War.
In the past those of us distant from war could only see it in the print media and television. It was curated with the intent to gain sympathy, or conceal the brutality of those who we were supposed to be sympathetic for. As censored as it was at times graphic, though...
Special Episode
In this special episode my wife joins me to discuss South African farm attacks and my son jumps on to discuss life as a young man trying to find his way. ALP
Fat Amy Performs as Expected
The F35 continues to shine as a boondoggle and taxpayer nightmare fuel. Taiclet’s boasts to investors about the program were quickly tempered by real world events the same day when video circulated of an out of control Air Force F-35 tumbling to a fiery crash in...