Beware those who claim to have a detailed blueprint for the ideal society. If such a person thinks you stand in the way, you may get run over. That's how it is with utopians. They want everything just so, and woe betide those who disagree. The repeated attempts at...
Politics
A Porcupine Peace Plan: How An Independent New Hampshire Could Increase U.S. Security
by Dave Ridley | Jan 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting."– Sun Tzu On March 12, 2006 five U.S. soldiers violated, then murdered, 14-year-old Abeer Hamza in her home at...
TGIF: Safety in Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 3, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
With the emergence of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, renewed restrictions on liberty or calls for their reinstatement have broken out around the world. The new wave is probably only beginning, and with it will surely come sermons on how we must face trade-offs between...
TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 26, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to everyone in our society. As the wise Glenn Loury would say, they are playing with fire. By polarization, of any kind, I mean more than merely a...
The Meaning of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
By now everyone is aware that “Let’s Go Brandon!” is code for “F*ck Joe Biden!” This linguistic innovation came about when a hapless NBC reporter told her audience that the members of a crowd shouting in unison were exuberantly expressing their enthusiasm for Brandon...
I Told Local Conservatives to Fight COVID Mandates with Radical Liberty Ep. 189
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 31, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
For this episode, I wanted to share the audio of the speech I gave to a group of local conservatives concerned about COVID19 tyranny and medical martial law. At the end of the episode, I share a few thoughts on libertarian strategy. Episode 189 of the Liberty Weekly...
How I Ignited Local Resistance to COVID Mandates Ep. 184
by Patrick Macfarlane | Sep 28, 2021 | Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/lpy8mGKJ3qs In this episode, I share with the listeners how I started a local resistance movement to COVID-19 mandates in my county. I hope you'll try the same in yours. Episode 184 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Join Liberty...
Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Politics
F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Although Hayek (1899-1992) to my knowledge had nothing to say about the climate controversy, his views on macroeconomics met with a...