On a shoestring budget since our founding in 2016, we have done our best to hold the line on libertarian principle while prioritizing the fight against the government’s worst depredations first. In 2017 we published our director Scott Horton’s acclaimed book Fool’s...
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How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
It's becoming more and more apparent that the United States will not be going back to "business as usual" after Donald Trump leaves office, and it is easy to imagine that the anti-Trump parties will use their return to power as an opportunity to settle scores against...
Hobbits and Hooligans: Revisiting Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy
by Kollin Fields | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
In case you couldn’t tell through the inescapable barrage of media coverage, we have an election coming up, which means voters are mobilizing. To most Americans, democracy and voting are the pinnacles of freedom. Your vote is your voice, etc. etc. 2016 threw a wrench...
Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
by John Whitehead | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment...
Asset Forfeiture and the Destruction of American Liberty
by Jacob Hornberger | Dec 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
For centuries, it has been an established tenet of Western jurisprudence that a person cannot be punished for a crime unless the government first convicts him of the crime in a court of law. After the Constitution called the federal government into existence, our...
Admiral McJackass
by Zack Sorenson | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
What a tool. Admiral McRaven's NY Times oped - in which we hear that an anonymous Army general has said: " 'I don’t like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!' " McRaven explains which "republic" Trump is destroying: "Those words echoed with me...
Year Zero 82: The Normie View
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog, Year Zero
Tommy is joined by a friend of his, Greg Price to discuss how average Americans view government, politics, culture, and media. Greg is an independent Ohio voter, a truck driver, a father, and grandfather. Unlike many podcasters and activists Greg isn't obsessively...
Send Thanksgiving Greetings to Chelsea Manning, Heroic Whistleblower In Jail
by Jim Bovard | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Working with Wikileaks almost a decade ago, Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided some of the most damning revelations on U.S. foreign policy and military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump’s Justice Department indicted Wikileaks’...
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Conflict in the 21st Century: A Dark and Robotic Future
I am delivering a talk at a professional organization in June 2024 on the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict to illustrate the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) of a future conflict that is dark and robotic. For those paying attention, the harnessing of sensors to...
Nearly 2,000 Children Killed in Ukraine, Over 15,000 in Gaza
Guess which one has been described by US government officials as a “genocide”.
Niger Tells Americans To Leave: American Influence in Africa will be Non-existent in Ten Years
More please. More State Department behavior like this will reduce the American footprint of influence planet-wide. “[Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine] said the Nigerian leaders took particular umbrage at remarks by Molly Phee, the State Department’s top...
The Logic of It All
This is how some people think: Business has long used the government to gain benefits it could not get in the marketplace. I have the cure for that: Abolish the market and expand the government to encompass all of society.
Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
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