It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
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Steven Grumbine Lies About Libertarianism!
by Keith Knight | Jan 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What is wrong with the following logic: Steven Grumbine advocates military spending austerity therefore wants America to get invaded, enslaved, and suffer a genocide. The unjustifiable assumption is that more military spending means we are safer. As Mr. Grumbine and I...
Putting Massive Unnecessary Obligations on Strangers Does Not Make You a Good Person
by Keith Knight | Dec 10, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
The true humanitarian rejoices when the people he helps feel ready to assert their independence and to strike out on their own; for isn’t this independence essential to being truly human? - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right, pp. 307–08 Government is the...
Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”
by Keith Knight | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
A common scam involves taking a constant reality that always applies to everyone, then uniquely applying it to one set of people or one set of ideas. Which of the following sounds more greedy to you?: Give me your money or I'll have my employees put you...
How Free Markets Make Poor Countries Wealthy (feat. Benjamin Powell, Ph.D.)
by Keith Knight | Sep 10, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/fmh1JeGAVP0 Here’s why: almost a hundred years ago, the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises explained that socialism, even if run by benevolent despots and populated with workers willing to work for the common good, could still not match capitalism’s...
How to Tell if a Politician is Economically Literate (feat. Per Bylund, Ph.D.)
by Keith Knight | Aug 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/x8g6W0JRV1s Core to understanding the economy is recognizing that it is about human actions and interactions. In fact, the economy is people acting and interacting. It is little or nothing else. We tend to think of the economy in terms of resources,...
The Most Important Graph in the World & Why Socialists Hate It
by Keith Knight | Aug 27, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/2QrYDV9QFTg (Source: Mark Perry at the American Institute for Economic Research) Over that period (1980-2018), the world’s population rose by 71.2 percent, yet the average working time required to earn enough money to buy 50 kinds of energy, food, raw...
A Necessary Alliance Between the Dissident Left and Libertarians
by Keith Knight | Jul 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a transcript from the Keith Knight Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, originally titled 'A Libertarian Message to the Great Jimmy Dore'. There is a lot of fundamental overlap in the progressive view of the world and the libertarian view. This is more or...
Hearing the Other Side: National Hall of Fame Teacher Interviews a Libertarian
by Keith Knight | Jun 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/3mDTfqt3Il0 ... one of the most significant ways in which the government could aid the poor is by removing its own direct roadblocks from their productive energies. Thus, minimum wage laws disemploy the poorest and least productive members of the...
How Two Socialists Became Libertarians. Jo Ann Skousen & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 24, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/_VXLOjD6708 The problem with political decisions isn’t that most of us don’t get our own way. It’s also that these decisions are usually imposed on us against our will, by threats of violence... Democracy, as we practice it, is unjust. We expose...
How to Effectively Fight Global Poverty. Bryan Caplan & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Apr 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/FrAG6MpikUg Free markets are awesome because they give business incentives to do good stuff that sounds bad. Governments are awful because they give politicians incentives to do bad stuff that sounds good. Since the correlation between what IS good...
Democratic Socialism: Mob Rule by the Ignorant
by Gary Galles | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
Why is politics so negative compared to marketing — its analog in the private sector — even though virtually every candidate echoes the desire to "just get along"? The explanation revolves around two important ways political competition differs from market...
10 Reasons I Left Progressivism for Libertarianism. Danny Duchamp & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 14, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/beOl_6ebVoU 1. People are more willing to make good decisions for themselves than others 2. People have better information on their preferences than other people 3. If you know you will control your future decisions, you are more able to make good...
A Libertarian Message to Conservatives & Progressives. Reed Coverdale, Clint Russell, & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 12, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/LQ-mwS-ZF_I ...government is an institution that has a territorial monopoly on the use of violence. Anyone skeptical of monopoly for economic reasons must also be skeptical of government. More importantly, government is the only agency in society that...
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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...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
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