The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
by Will Porter | Feb 3, 2024 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Here's why democracy is a dubious idea. Government decisions are high stakes. It decides matters of war and peace, prosperity and poverty, freedom or oppression. Yet we let incompetent people steer the ship of state. Most voters are ignorant and process what little...
by Norman Singleton | Jan 31, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
A common way politicians and government officials bury bad or controversial news is to release it at a time when it is guaranteed to receive limited attention, such as 4:45 p.m. on a Friday or right before a holiday. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the...
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What began as a nearly universal outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the crimes of October 7, 2023, has now followed the post-9/11 trajectory, with the Israel government killing multiple times the number of victims destroyed in the precipitating attack by Hamas....
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This article was posted shortly before the International Court of Justice ruled provisionally that Israel's Gaza military operation can plausibly be described as acts outlawed by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The ICJ...
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Spreading civilization and human rights has long been used as an excuse for state-building through colonialism and imperialism. This idea dates back at least to early Spanish and colonial efforts in the New World, and the rationale was initially employed as just one...
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With Taiwan’s presidential election now concluded, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te having won a plurality due to the failure of the major opposition parties (the KMT and TPP) to combine behind one candidate, tensions in East...
by Robert Blumen | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
The European Commission is a legislative body in the European Union with regulatory authority over digital technology. The EC’s eIDAS Article 45, a proposed regulation, would deliberately weaken areas of internet security that the industry has carefully evolved and...
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
The dogs of war are always in heat. They bark, they gnaw, they kill and breed. Civilisation a chimera, chewing through bones, tearing at flesh, the killers are never in defeat. No matter how well behaved they act, whatever laws claim to be their collar and what kennel...
National Iranian American Council (NIAC) president Jamal Abdi has commented on Tehran's major drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday night. NIAC has worked to improve US-Iran relations and spent years pushing for increased diplomacy. We are deeply concerned...
All of us want fairness and whatever your position on the J6 protests, the Federal government response to that incident and the contrast in handling the very violent Antifa perpetrators and incidents makes one take pause on the behavior of the US DoJ and its tentacled...
https://youtu.be/70oW1bau5Tg Th e strategy was dictated by the quasi-libertarian, stateless medieval starting point, and it suggested itself “naturally,” fi rst and foremost to the top ranks of social authority, in particular to feudal kings. In a nutshell, it boils...