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3/24/23 Ryan McMaken on Nuclear Weapons and How the Fed Fuels Inequality
by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute to talk about nuclear weapons and the boom-bust cycle. They begin with a discussion of McMaken's recent article pushing back against common arguments for the production of more nuclear weapons....
To Fight the State, Build Alternatives to the State
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable and coherent...
Donald Trump Promises to Protect the Welfare State
by Laurence Vance | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
In a recent brief video message to his supporters, former president and current 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump warned Republicans about cutting Medicare or Social Security: Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or...
Triangulating a Definition of Libertarianism
by Danny Duchamp | Feb 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
There was a time when the word “liberal” meant something closer to what we currently mean when we say “libertarian.” This should not be surprising, since the root word of both is “liberty.” Unfortunately, the definition of “liberal” has drifted—and various liberal...
12/8/22 Hassan El-Tayyab and Marcy Winograd on Yemen and Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Hassan El-Tayyab about the vote next week to end support for the Saudi war in Yemen. The two give a brief background on the war to explain how we got here before explaining next week’s vote. Next Scott...
Kyle Kulinski Doesn’t Understand Slavery
by Keith Knight | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized
UBI = Slavery. Social Security = Slavery. Universal Healthcare = Slavery. Wage Slavery = FREEDOM. - Kyle Kulinski (@seculartalk) If "wage slavery" is in fact slavery, Kulinski and the like must advocate abolishing College since it requires thousands of hours of work...
Don’t Let Biden’s Attempted Vaccine Mandate Fall Down the Memory Hole
by Jim Bovard | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you pick up a COVID infection during your next visit to a hospital or medical office, maybe send a thank-you card to President Biden. His COVID vaccine mandate was one of the most perverse public-health edicts in modern times. Vaccination status went from being a...
Reverse Immigration: Should Wealthy People Move to Poorer Countries?
by Lipton Matthews | Sep 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
The immigration debate has polarized societies across the Western world. Objectors assert that the influx of migrants has corroded social relations, and defenders argue that immigrants release a dose of entrepreneurial dynamism. Debates will persist because it’s...
Why Government Grows Itself
by Jim Cardoza | Sep 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
It is understandable if folks are baffled and dismayed by the news that confronts us each day. The Babylon Bee can barely keep a step ahead of the nitwittery we see playing out in real time. For example, California politicians decided to take money from taxpayers in...
Statism Is Bad for the Brain
by A.J. Van Slyke | Aug 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
I met a man the other day while at the gym. He asked me what kind of work I did which steered us into a conversation about politics. He was a kind man, older, served in ‘Nam in ‘69, smart. During the whole conversation he was afraid to ask me what my politics were. He...
A Prize System as a Solution to Drug Patents
by Dakota Hensley | Aug 10, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Drugs are expensive. A vial of insulin can be up to $250 and a pack of pens can be up to $500. Every month, many families decide between life and food. For a country as rich as ours this is a disgrace and a moral crime. The culprit is the pharmaceutical monopoly. With...
US to Send Ukraine $5.5 Billion in New Budgetary, Military Aid
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 8, 2022 | News Roundup
The US announced on Monday new massive aid packages for Ukraine, including $4.5 billion in direct budgetary aid and a $1 billion weapons package.
A Necessary Alliance Between the Dissident Left and Libertarians
by Keith Knight | Jul 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a transcript from the Keith Knight Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, originally titled 'A Libertarian Message to the Great Jimmy Dore'. There is a lot of fundamental overlap in the progressive view of the world and the libertarian view. This is more or...
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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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