Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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TGIF: Complete Liberalism
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Many people formerly of the left, who have bid good riddance to their former political home, believe they can retain the mantle of authentic liberalism while ignoring its free-market component. They don't want socialism, and they appropriately dislike the right-wing....
Nihilism w/Buck Johnson
by Tommy Salmons | Jun 27, 2022 | Year Zero
Buck joined me to discuss Nihilism by Fr Seraphim Rose. Nihilism is an interesting critique of liberalism that walks through the stages of societal degradation. Fr Seraphim determines that the replacement of an objective truth with relative truth sends the world into...
TGIF: True Liberals Are Not Conservatives
by Sheldon Richman | May 20, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The relevance of F. A. Hayek's essay "Why I Am Not a Conservative," the postscript to his important 1960 book, The Constitution of Liberty, is demonstrated at once by the opening quote from Lord Acton: At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its...
TGIF: Utopianism May Be Hazardous to Your Health
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Beware those who claim to have a detailed blueprint for the ideal society. If such a person thinks you stand in the way, you may get run over. That's how it is with utopians. They want everything just so, and woe betide those who disagree. The repeated attempts at...
TGIF: National or Enlightenment Liberal Identity?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I find much to admire about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch-American scholar, author, and one-time politician who has drawn international attention to the violence against women and girls not only in Muslim-majority countries but also in the West at the hands...
Episode 667: Opposing The Psychopathic And Vicious w/ Stephen W Carson (Radical Liberation)
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 5, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
90 Minutes PG-13 Stephen Carson is the host of the Radical Liberation channel on YouTube Pete asked Stephen to come on after seeing a discussion he was having about Democracy vs. Monarchy to talk about classical liberalism, democracy, monarchy and the eventual...
Episode 642: Does Liberalism Work? w/ Charles aka ‘Charlemagne’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 12, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
80 Minutes PG-13 Charles, aka Charlemagne, is the proprietor of the NeoReactor Substack, and hosts of the YouTube channels "Charlemagne" and "Academic Agent" Charles joins Pete to talk about an article he recently wrote entitled "Libertarian Diagnostic Failure," in...
Episode 639: ‘We Live in a Banana Republic With Air Conditioning’ w/ Adam Patrick and Mark Metz
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 5, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
83 Minutes PG-13 Mark Metz is the proprietor of The Emergent at MarkMetz.Substack.com, and Adam Patrick is the host of Yer Talkin Over Me. Adam and Mark join Pete to talk about Mises-style liberalism and whether it opens the door for totalitarianism. They also talk...
I Did Not Come To Lead Lambs, I Came To Awaken Lions
by Steven Woskow | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog
Not speaking clearly may be the first problem of politics. It is much like the old axiom, often misattributed to Burke, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. In much of the world, conservatism has been living in fear since the last...
Who’s On Left?
by Scott Shearin | Feb 23, 2021 | Blog
In so many ways right now, culturally, the Left is now the Right and the Right is now the Left.
Unpleasant Times
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman
If Ludwig von Mises were alive today he would be viewing our current predicament with alarm but not surprise. He lived through something similar about a century ago. In response to inexcusable police brutality, some outraged people who've taken to the streets have...
Liberalism a Threat to U.S. Free Speech
by Will Grigg | Mar 3, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
Hong Kong Protestors Might Not Be Smart
by Zack Sorenson | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog
We know the CIA is helping the protesters. One. We know China is amassing an army to send into Hong Kong (which will change everything for Hong Kong), and we know what China is willing to do to protesters with tanks. Two. Hong Kong's protesters have access to...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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