A young college woman is raped by a man. No justice is found because the rapist is an otherwise “promising young man” with a future ahead of him. His victim is merely a blip on his sterling professional conduct. Those who witnessed or were aware of the rape pretend as...
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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...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
by Keith Knight | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog
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...
Our System Has a Trust Deficit (And For Good Reason)
by Jeffrey Wernick | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Trust is apparently an extremely elusive concept to implement. If you read The New York Times or Washington Post, you are told not to trust Fox News nor Newsmax nor OANN. If you listen to Fox News you are told not to trust the NYT nor WaPo nor CNN nor MSNBC. And they...
Two Books That Will Change the Way You See the World
by Keith Knight | Jan 11, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/MqH_dqnZmEY Furthermore, those who originally agreed to the Constitution, could thereby bind nobody that should come after them. They could contract for nobody but themselves. They had no more natural right or power to make political contracts,...
Can Wage Transparency Fix the Pay Gap?
by Walter E. Block | Jan 4, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Will wage transparency reduce or eliminate the pay gap between men and women? Yes and no. Let’s take the no side first. Wage transparency will not reduce or eliminate this pay gap because it emanates from real differences in productivity (actually discounted marginal...
Where Have All the Working Men Gone?
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last week, CNN featured a story called "Men are dropping out of the workforce. Here's why" The article went on to tell us virtually nothing at all about why so many men are leaving the workforce. Although as many as seven million men have stayed out of the workforce...
FBI COINTELPRO Is Back, And Worse Than Ever
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI’s latest war on Americans’ freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved of, including parody accounts. The FBI and other...
Why the GOP Should Be Nicer to the LP
by Walter E. Block | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
Full disclosure: I have been a member of the Libertarian Party ever since 1969 when I ran for New York State Assembly, two years before the creation of the national party in 1971. But I hold no office with them and cannot speak for them. Marc Victor is not going to...
How Should Christians Treat Unjust Laws?
by Evan Patterson | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
May Christians ignore unjust laws? When you ask a Christian what the relationship between the Christian and the government is they are most likely to point to Matthew 22:21 (NET), “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are...
Boy, Those [Foreigners] Are Real Sickos
by Scott Horton | Sep 24, 2022 | Blog
USAF General: Killing the Enemy Makes Life Better: “Lethality matters most. When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger. ... This is who we are. We are lethal. Do not apologize for it! The pile of...
8/22/22 Hunter DeRensis on Loser Liz Cheney’s Awful Legacy
by Scott Horton | Aug 25, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott speaks with Hunter DeRensis about the legacy of Liz Cheney. Although the Wyoming Congresswoman recently lost her primary, she seems determined to take a shot at national office. But even if we’re not done with her yet, it’s still worth taking...
Navy Fights With Congress to Decommission Little Crappy Ships
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose details the battle between the Department of Defense and Congress over the future of the Littoral Combat Ship program. The Pentagon is seeking to scrap five of its LCS, including four ships that are less than five years old. However,...
Elon Musk is Angering the Right People
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Twitter’s senior management and Elon Musk are in the final stages of agreeing on terms for Musk’s proposed takeover of the social media platform. Musk had announced on April 21 that he had $46.5 billion lined up—half in cash,...
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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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