America’s Counter-Revolution

2/21/20 Sheldon Richman on the Nonintervention Principle

by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Sheldon Richman discusses what he calls "the nonintervention principle," a corollary of libertarianism's nonaggression principle. Richman says that in the face of those who advocate foreign intervention and regime change, libertarians have a tendency to deny the...

Happy Constitution Day!

by Sheldon Richman | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog

For Constitution Day, may I modestly suggest the perfect gift for your loved ones?

America’s Counter-Revolution Reviewed

by Sheldon Richman | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, Sheldon Richman

My thanks to Winton Bates of Australia for his review of America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited. "Did the framers of the U.S. Constitution intend it to protect liberty? "A week ago my answer would have been along the lines that while I could not...

Welcome to the Libertarian Institute!

by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Scott Horton

Welcome to The Libertarian Institute! The idea has been percolating around for a while, and now we're ready. It is a unique moment. The time is ripe for this new project to advance peace and liberty. Our goal is to unite the libertarian movement and more importantly...

TGIF: Shimon Peres and 9/11

by Sheldon Richman | Oct 2, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman

The death of former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres (age 93), the last major figure of Israel's founding generation, has brought an outpouring of tributes for a man who reputedly had, as President Obama put it in his eulogy, "the capacity to see all...

TGIF: Neither Democracy nor Elitism

by Sheldon Richman | Sep 23, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman

Whenever we libertarians point out democracy's perverse incentives (as I do here) we risk being accused of elitism. However, those who assume that the only alternative to rule by the people is rule by an aristocracy reveal a tragically incomplete awareness of the...

America’s Counter-Revolution Reviewed

by Sheldon Richman | Aug 15, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Independent historian (and old friend) Joseph R. Stromberg reviewed America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited at The American Conservative magazine website. He opens "The Federalists' Revenge"...

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Back on The Rational Egoist

Michael Liebowitz invited me back to talk about whether we should have a government.

Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!

It has been thirty years since the website Antiwar.com was launched. A defiant reaction to the Clinton administrations interventions in the Balkans during the 1990s. Founded by the late Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris, the site went on to become a platform of...

Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X: I nearly missed my flight this...

Trump Debuts the Next US Navy Ship Disaster

POTUS revealed the latest US naval ship catastrophe, the Mango Emperor-class battleship. Apparently he and his staff did not get the memorandum from 8 December 1941. The US Navy has not built a successful hull since the Arleigh Burke (early 90s) and has had huge...

The Bloody Weekend: Netanyahu’s Blame Game, Americans Killed, and the Fuentes Backlash

The weekend should have been quiet. Instead, a Hanukkah celebration on a Sydney beach turned into a massacre, a Muslim bystander tackled a shooter, and within hours the tragedy was weaponized. We dig into what happened, why the early “false flag” whispers took hold,...

Christmas Hiatus

The Chasing Ghosts and WarNotes podcasts are on Christmas vacation, next episode will be published on Monday, 5 January 2026. See you next year. Stay strapped for Christmas...

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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...