IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of...
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On “What Must Be Done”
In most schools – public and private – children are brainwashed into believing that the federal government is not only benevolent, but that it protects the individual’s life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. Though that was the original intention of the...
Civil Asset Forfeiture Suffers a Crushing Defeat
There are a few issues where Americans on both sides of our political divide are in agreement and one of them is the wrongfulness of civil asset-forfeiture laws. Under those laws (which exist at federal, state, and local levels), a person can be deprived of his...
Get Out The Vote!
“The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.” ~Frédéric Bastiat, “The State” (1848) “It is practically inevitable that such men should win great influence over the state, because they may view it as means,...
Roving Bandit, Stationary Bandit, and Income Tax
Many libertarians have embraced the slogan “taxation is theft.” I myself think it is more precise to say that taxation is extortion. But even saying that fails to capture how egregious taxation really is, especially income taxation. When a mugger or a home invader...
Cooperation, Not Sanctions, Will Make America Great Again
Someone needs to tell President Donald Trump that his own U.S. Treasury Department chief, Steve Mnuchin, mass purveyor of reckless and short-sighted economic trade sanctions, is undermining his ability to truly make America great again. While the rest of the world...
Austrian Economics Could Better Explain Politics
In a previous article, I discussed a theory of conflict framed by economics. I suspect that my thoughts touch on Rothbard's elusive category of Praxeology: the "Theory of Hostile Action". I stumbled upon the idea that economic analysis can be applied to conflict...
Cognitive Dissonance and the Statue of Robert E. Lee
When the news broke about white supremacists inciting violence over the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was reading one of the most thought-provoking books on human nature that I’ve ever read—namely, the New York Times...
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