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Welcome to Grokfest, New Hampshire’s New Liberty Festival
by Sidney Algernon | May 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Since the Free State Project began working to move liberty-minded individuals to the small New England state of New Hampshire, the sheer volume of libertarians and libertarian-adjacent people in the state has ballooned. What was once a small group of dedicated liberty...
WATCH: Dozens of NYPD Remove Child Without Vaccine Passport from Restaurant
by Matt Agorist | Dec 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported, earlier this month, New York mayor Bill de Blasio expanded the already-tyrannical “Key to NYC” program which imposed a vaccination mandate for workers and customers at indoor dining, fitness, entertainment and performance venues. Anyone who wished to...
What’s Worse: Murder vs. Traffic Fatalities
by Walter E. Block | Oct 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles
The murder rate in 2020 was at an all time high, and commentators are in a tizzy about this. It turns out that there were 21,570 homicides in the United States. This is an unprecedented increase of almost 30% compared to 2019. An additional 4901 people were murdered...
Economic Warfare – The Collapse Of Yemen’s Economy
by Steven Woskow | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog
Inflation as a weapon of war. According to local economists who spoke to MintPress, the reasons behind the collapse of Yemen’s economy and its currency are many and varied but the expansionary monetary policy that has been taken by Saudi Arabia is one of the key...
Liberty Weekly Presents: “Wild, Wild Country”
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 2, 2018 | Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
In this summer special of the Liberty Weekly Podcast, I team up with Robert and Daniel from the Actual Anarchy Podcast for an in-depth discussion and analysis of “Wild, Wild Country.” “Wild, Wild Country” is a six-part Netflix docuseries which tells the story of...
Of Gods and Central Planners
by Rachel Mills | Sep 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics
Don’t get your economics from Game of Thrones - or any other fictional Show Oh, the delicious power of writing fiction! Your paper world is entirely under your control. Not only do you determine the course of the plot, you determine all the laws. I don’t mean just the...
Everyone Should be Listening to Nobody Speak
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog
When Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, sued Gawker Media for invasion of privacy, infringement of personality rights, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the suit’s chief effect was to amplify the “news” that Bollea had been caught on video having sex with...
The Over-Criminalization of American Life
by Charles Hugh Smith | Jun 27, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The over-criminalization of America has undermined justice, the rule of law and legal egalitarianism. While the corporate media devotes itself to sports, entertainment, dining out and the latest political kerfuffle, America has become the Over-Criminalization Capital...
Two Studies Retracted After Claiming Video Games Make Us Violent
by James Holbrooks | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. It’s one of those questions that currently appears to have no clear answer: Do violent video games lead to violence in reality? It seems any opinion on the matter can be backed up by evidence, be it scientific...
Why Can’t You Pay for Sex?
by Ninos Malik | Mar 7, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Is it illegal to date or marry someone only because they are famous, wealthy, or both? No. Are there unattractive people who have good looking dates or spouses only because they are famous or wealthy? Yes. Is it legal to go to a nightclub for the sole purpose of...
Must Watch: Jon Stewart Destroyed the Media Over Its Coverage of Trump
by James Holbrooks | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. New York — To the delight of the crowd, former media commentator Jon Stewart dropped in on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show for a visit on Monday. Or, more accurately, he popped up. Colbert was addressing the camera on...
Libertarianism as Extreme Middle-of-the-Roadism
by Per Bylund | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
While the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate Gary Johnson unsuccessfully tried to sell voters a lukewarm version of libertarianism as the good policies from both Democrats and Republicans but none of the bad (“neither too hot nor too cold”), there’s an...
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The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
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
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