In early 2021, CDC director Rochelle Walensky had no problem going on national television and declaring to the world that if you took the covid-19 vaccine "you will not get or spread covid." Within weeks, this was found to be entirely untrue. Dr. Anthony Fauci also...
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How Reddit Killed Stakeholder Theory
by Jeff Deist | Feb 4, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The GameStop saga shows some "equity" movements are more equal than others. Stakeholder theory, the corporate version of social justice, attempts to install this hopelessly amorphous concept of "equity" in the business world. Equity, unlike equality, demands different...
Toxic Partisanship: A Gateway Towards Authoritarianism
by David D'Amato | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
For years a consistent refrain in American politics has bewailed an increasingly polarized political atmosphere. As the Pew Research Center observes, for the first time in almost 25 years, “majorities in both parties express not just unfavorable but very unfavorable...
Sleazy Republicans Headed By Liz Cheney Back Challenger To Congressman Thomas Massie – Get Burned
by Steven Woskow | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog
Perpetual war monger Liz Cheney has vowed to defeat Congressman Thomas Massie from Kentucky by actively donating to his challenger Tod McMurtry. But, Massie has been publishing tweets from McMurtry which show support for Alt-right viewpoints on race which have...
The Libertarian To Alt-Right Pipeline
by Jennifer Monroe | Nov 8, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian
Yes, I finally made this episode. It's time to discuss the infamous libertarian to alt-right pipeline, is it real, how did this narrative come to be, and what we can do about it Subscribe to my Patreon for early access to my episodes...
TGIF: Separation, Not Association, Requires Force
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 8, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Whenever I write about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism -- especially when I point out that American Reform Jews en masse gagged on the thought that America was not their "homeland"; they insisted they were Jewish Americans not American Jews -- I am lectured on Facebook...
There’s No Reason to Worry About the Supposed “Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline”
by Rare | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Much ink has been spilled in the aftermath of Charlottesville about the supposed direct connection between libertarians and the alt-right. “Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian,” Matt Lewis notes in his seminal piece...
There's No Reason to Worry About the Supposed "Libertarian to Alt-Right Pipeline"
by Rare | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Much ink has been spilled in the aftermath of Charlottesville about the supposed direct connection between libertarians and the alt-right. “Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian,” Matt Lewis notes in his seminal piece...
TGIF: The Liberal Spirit and Its Opposite, Alt-Rightism
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How ridiculous it is for Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast to write, "It seems observably true that libertarianism is disproportionately a gateway drug to the alt-right." To say the libertarian movement is a "gateway drug" is to say more than that some prominent members...
TGIF: Tribalism and Economic Nationalism – Cut from the Same Cloth
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 18, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I have no idea what goes on in Donald Trump's head, but I can imagine a connection between his refusal to renounce the support of alt-right white identitarians and his rejection of globalism -- that is, the freedom of people to trade across national boundaries and to...
China Just Slammed the US Over Charlottesville After Report on Religious Freedom Released
by James Holbrooks | Aug 17, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. On Tuesday, the State Department released a report on international religious freedom that was highly critical of a number of countries, one of which was China. CNN, which detailed the report in an article titled...
What Exactly Is Property? Alt-Right Vs. Liberty
by Zack Sorenson | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog
I was listening to a comedian talking about "stolen jokes" today. It's an interesting question for libertarians. Is it wrong to steal jokes? Should it be illegal? Briefly, I think that most libertarians would say that stealing jokes should definitely not be...
Can Blockchain Technology Defend Free Speech?
by Zack Sorenson | Jun 24, 2017 | Blog
As an erstwhile reddit user, I was dismayed by this past election cycle's effect on the site. Reddit is a discussion forum site that lets users set up topic specific home pages where they can freely post links or text discussions. Other users vote up or down on a...
Free Speech: Ted Wheeler is the Enemy He Invokes
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 9, 2017 | Blog
Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, wants to control who can say — and hear — what. He’s asked the federal government to cancel one permit and deny another, both for “alt-right” demonstrations at Portland’s Shrunk Plaza. His excuse: Portland is “in mourning”...
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A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
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