This year’s presidential election is the fourth since 2000 to be marred by either widespread allegations of voter fraud or of foreign interference. Politicians and pundits have long counted on elections to wave a magic wand of legitimacy over the reign of whoever is...
Politics
Gun Control and Racism: The Laws and Taxes Meant to Limit Minority Gun Ownership in America
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 4, 2020 | Politics
“There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.” Stacy Swimp, President of the Frederick Douglass Society Every schoolchild knows that the Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of man is “self-evident.” The United...
Cultural Superiority Isn’t Racism: Why Western Values Underpin the World’s Best Countries
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 3, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Politics
A view of Western culture as being uniquely valuable is radically different from racism.
The False Dichotomy of Voting
by Kollin Fields | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
A false dichotomy is when one is presented with two options as if those were the only options. American presidential elections present voters with a false dichotomy. This election, we are led to believe that Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only real options for the...
The American People’s Justified Cynicism
by Jim Bovard | Nov 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
“The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism,” declared former president Barack Obama two years ago. But as we enter the final days of another demagoguery-drenched presidential campaign, it is time to give cynicism the credit it deserves. In an era of clueless...
On Tuesday, Antiwar Voters Might Decide the Presidential Election
by Hunter DeRensis | Nov 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Monday [two weeks ago], on the 19th anniversary of U.S. soldiers hitting the ground in Afghanistan, dozens of people gathered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with the goal of ensuring that our men and women in uniform won’t be in Afghanistan for another anniversary....
The ‘Private’ Dilemma
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
There is an issue that “Libertarianism” refuses to take a nuanced approach to that will inevitably further marginalize it in the eyes of the general public. When it is brought up the “consistent” libertarian/anarchist retreats into the world of informal fallacies,...
A History of Libertarian Party Presidential Messaging, 1972-1996
by Hunter DeRensis | Oct 15, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Friends of liberty inside and outside the Libertarian Party are waiting patiently—some passively—for three more weeks until the conclusion of the November presidential election. Not to find out whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will come in first, but how many votes...