https://youtu.be/rtKglXe5c3E When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. - Ayn Rand,...
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The Psychology Behind Turning Soldiers Into Killers
by Keith Knight | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog
https://youtu.be/1cV--8aT074 From Patrick McFarlane's Liberty Weekly Show Notes: In this first video/documentary style podcast, I review Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s seminal work On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. In doing so, I...
TGIF: Equal Rights Now!
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 12, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
A pet peeve of mine is the distinction, drawn even by some market enthusiasts, between so-called personal liberty (or civil liberties) and economic liberty. The former, which usually includes freedom of conscience and religion, speech, and press, is thought to be...
Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Politics
F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Although Hayek (1899-1992) to my knowledge had nothing to say about the climate controversy, his views on macroeconomics met with a...
A Tribute to Great Minds. Thomas E. Woods Jr. & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Sep 22, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/LALiVLMtN2o ... while Ludwig von Mises was acknowledged as one of Europe’s most eminent economists in the 1920s and 30s, the language barrier shut off any recognition of Mises in the Anglo-American world until the mid-1930s; then, just as his business...
Capitalism Delivers What Socialism Promises. Isabella Riley & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Apr 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Rv4r7EW5hxc Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift , a freely fl owing uncoerced act by the giver. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1228 Isabella Riley on Twitter:...
Specialization and the Division of Labor – Mises & Rothbard
by Keith Knight | Mar 27, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/SEN7wqtbX_o No one can fully develop his powers in any direction without engaging in specialization. ... the developing division of labor is a key to the advance of any economy above the most primitive level. A necessary condition for any sort of...
Why Wages Rise – Ludwig von Mises
by Keith Knight | Mar 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/IfC6vPRCh4I The buyers do not pay for the toil and trouble the worker took nor for the length of time he spent in working. They pay for the products. The better the tools are which the worker uses in his job, the more he can perform in an hour, the...
How Basic Economics Debunks Marxism
by Keith Knight | Mar 12, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/T3VY19N7IFM ... coercion benefits one party only at the expense of others. Coerced exchange is a system of exploitation of man by man, in contrast to the free market, which is a system of cooperative exchanges in the exploitation of nature alone. ......
The Libertarian Litmus Test. Stephan Kinsella & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 3, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/fVZpWRkY55k ... certain features are broadly alike in all visions of communism. Private property is eliminated, individualism goes by the board, individuality is flattened, all property is owned and controlled communally, and the individual units of...
Economics Professor Refutes Socialism! Per L. Bylund & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Oct 17, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/JW9tlZdXOaY Per L. Bylund, PhD, is assistant professor of entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston professor of free enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Find his work here: Twitter: @perbylund PerBylund.com...
Why Some Countries Are Wealthy, and Others Are Impoverished – Brennan and Mises
by Keith Knight | Oct 1, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/rvDpwalgHq4 ... in a progressing economy, i.e., in an economy with increases in gross savings and investment, money wages and ground rents may well fall, but real wages and rents will rise. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and...
What is ‘the Law’? Attorney Stephan Kinsella and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Sep 23, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/mhUITqiIa-4 To be an anarchist only means that you believe aggression is unjustified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. Stephan Kinsella Find...
A Strategy for Forcing the State Back
by Per Bylund | Jul 28, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As libertarians, we like to discuss two things: what could be and what is wrong with society today. Some of us are intrigued by the promises of a free society, no matter if we advocate the total abolishment of the State or wish to radically cut back on its powers. It...
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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