The great Dr. Ron Paul has been right about all the major issues that confront the world today. He is right about the Fed, the Ukraine war, the FBI, and so much else. How has he managed to do that? What has given him wisdom unique on the political scene today? The...
Human beings are self-actualizing social animals. We need to cooperate with others to flourish fully and (but?) we also need the freedom to make of ourselves the persons we wish to be; we need autonomy. Can we do both liberty and social order? The answer is yes, and...
https://youtu.be/8yNp_Rqr1AE On July 4, 2022, I reflect on the United States' fall from republic to failing empire. In doing so, I get a little help from Murray Rothbard and Justin Raimondo. Episode 222 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by:...
https://youtu.be/ikey9sLQYvc If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter- changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who,...
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
45 Minutes PG-13 Tho Bishop is the associate editor of Mises.org Pete invited Tho on to give an overview of what exactly is what has come to be known as the "Paleo Strategy." It is attributed to Murray Rothbard's writings from the early 1990s but is often described in...
When a libertarian says that the most basic individual right is the right not to be aggressed against, a clever interlocutor may accuse the libertarian of begging the question, of stuffing the rabbit into the hat. The trick, the critic will say, is in the word...
https://youtu.be/BHfKIu-GSPM Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxdrKd-gFg Keith Knight joins me once again to differentiate between individualism and collectivism. In doing so, we rely on quotations from Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Follow Keith Knight's Don't Tread on Anyone Keith on...
https://youtu.be/nFQuYaFW1aM Some libertarian anarchists view even the act of secession as a political act which creates a new, albeit smaller, state. We examine the libertarian principles at play behind secession and examine the libertarian arguments against...
https://youtu.be/a-PH_SfA-kc ... it is only the libertarians who have the answer that can cut through and resolve the numerous conflicts around bussing, textbooks, religion, sex, etc., that are rife in the public schools. And that answer, of course, is to abolish the...
Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there's a more...
https://youtu.be/7Q1dhYX95fw The libertarian creed emerged from the “classical liberal” movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world, specifically, from the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. This radical libertarian movement,...
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