Another day, another controversy about Colin Kaepernick and so-called patriotism. This time, Nike pulled a line of shoes with the Besty Ross flag on the back because Kaepernick objected that it was flown in the slavery era. Others say it's objectionable because white...
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Jon Utley’s Lifetime Fight for Freedom Recognized With New Award
by Jim Bovard | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Jon Utley, one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom and antiwar activists in the nation, received a well-earned Lifetime Achievement Award from American Conservative magazine at their Washington dinner last week. Jon has been in the forefront of the...
2/1/19 Sheldon Richman on the FDA’s War on Tobacco, Part 2
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman comes on the show for part two of his series on the FDA's recent moves to control tobacco products even more tightly. Not only is the agency allowed to regulate all products containing tobacco, they can now determine what constitutes a "tobacco...
Wall Talk
by Brandon Smith | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
There’s a lot of Wall talk going on these days, but both political sides’ proposed solutions would seem to make everyone in this country less free. Is there a way to address these border issues in a way that would increase personal freedom instead? Looking at each...
11/9/18 Sheldon Richman on Voting
by Scott Horton | Nov 10, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman shares his election day experience, one where he got to choose exactly the outcome he wanted and take home real products afterward—namely, he went to the grocery store. Richman contrasts the voting of the marketplace that we do every day with our...
Illegitimate
by Maggie McNeill | Nov 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The most important lesson of the “Me Too” phenomenon has, of course, gone completely ignored: it is the same as the most important lesson that ubiquitous cell phone video and Donald Trump’s presidency have taught us, which is that absolutely no one, no matter how...
Episode 138: Are Libertarian/Anarchists Utopian?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 5, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
One of the accusations that is repeatedly leveled at libertarian/anarchists is that they are utopians that don't understand human nature. Mance wanted to address this subject and a few others so he invited Jeremiah Harding to talk about it. Jeremiah is a busy guy who...
Are Libertarians Good Neighbors?
by Craig Cantoni | Jun 19, 2018 | Libertarianism
It is said that fences make good neighbors. But do libertarians make good neighbors? This question comes to mind because of the problem between the most libertarian member of Congress, Rand Paul, and his neighbor in Kentucky The neighbor was recently sentenced to a...
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Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
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