With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
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Freedom = Social Cooperation = Superabundance (feat. Marian Tupy)
https://youtu.be/L1WIoXexTmw After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at...
Episode 529: Hope for the Future of Education w/ Kerry McDonald
42 Minutes Safe for Work Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor....
Authoritarian Populism v. Libertarianism. Tom Palmer and Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/uuew9Ycs2qU The liberal revolution implanted indelibly in the minds of the masses — not only in the West but in the still feudally-dominated undeveloped world — the burning desire for liberty... Murray N. Rothbard Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against...
This Year's Farm Bill Is Everything Wrong With Washington
The farm bill is up for renewal, and with it almost everything you think of when it comes to big government: billions in corporate welfare, special-interest handouts, protectionist price supports, and massive federal transfers. At least it doesn't launch any wars....
4/19/17 Gene Healy on the weak legal justification for Trump’s ‘drive-by Tomahawking’ in Syria
Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses the media's strained constitutional justification for Trump's "limited military activity" in Syria; and why the 1973 War Powers Resolution doesn't give the president a free pass to initiate offensive...
1/23/17 Doug Bandow on ending the decades-long, counterproductive US sanctions on Sudan
Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses why US sanctions against Sudan, put in place not long after President Omar Hassan al-Bashir took power in a 1989 coup, have failed to produce any positive results, serving only to economically cripple the...
01/04/04 – Gene Healy – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Gene Healy, the Senior Editor at the Cato Institute about his studies: There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to 'Help' Localities Fight Gun Crime, Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton...
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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole
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...
Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government
