Critics are calling Oregon’s Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act a failure. According to Oregon’s ABC affiliate KATU: “Oregon still has among the highest addiction rates in the country. Fatal overdoses have increased almost 20% over the previous year, with over...
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The Meaning of Inalienable
by Jeffrey Wernick | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
This article was originally published on June 17, 2021. Biden expressed the uniqueness of America, the idea of America: “You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We...
Why I Ended Liberty Weekly and Started Vital Dissent
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog
Since episode 234 was the last episode of Liberty Weekly. I thought it'd be fitting to sit down and work through exactly what that means. When I started the project in June 2016, I had no idea how long it would last or what it would turn into. The best thing about the...
A Nobel Prize Awarded for Economic Destruction
by Ron Paul | Oct 17, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is a 2022 recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics for his writings on how government should respond to bank failures. Honoring Bernanke for his advice on what government should do when banks fail is like giving a fire...
We Need Beauty in Economics, and in the World
by Jeff Deist | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright played an important role in the design of this beautiful desert resort. I’m sure I’m not the only person here tonight who was introduced to his work through reading Ayn Rand. His touches are plainly visible in the stonework, wooden...
Texas Officer Fired After Shooting Teen in McDonald’s Parking Lot
by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog
Imagine the nerve of someone saying "You'll be safe so long as you do whatever I say. Have a problem? Take it up with my coworkers in 4 months." Of course it's a truism that all interests will align if one party disregards their interest. However with the...
Jacobin Magazine Lies About Ludwig von Mises!
by Keith Knight | Oct 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
Five important criticisms are made of Ludwig von Mises in the recent Jacobin article titled, Ludwig von Mises Was a Free Market Ideologue, Not a Hardheaded Thinker. Mises was an ideologue Mises supported workers "bowing" to capitalist masters Lack of support for...
Living Down Range
by John Vaughn | Oct 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Exactly one week ago at about 11:30am, as I sat at my desk working, two enormous explosions shook my house. My windows rattled, my coffee slightly sloshed in its mug, and my dogs started barking in alarm. I remarked to my wife across the hall: “Those were some big...
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The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?
Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...
Winter Reading
Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...
A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms
Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...
Economics Is about Individual Choice
"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...
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