Christianity has to deal with a lot of misconceptions. From the idea that Christianity was created by Paul to the idea that Jesus was a cynic, owing to its prestige and power and the desecration of almost everything due to modernist secularism, Christianity has been...
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Copyright Laws Are Enabling Woke ‘Re-Writes’ of Classics
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured Articles
The estate of Roald Dahl this month announced that it would be rewriting many of the long-dead author’s books to better suit a “modern” audience. Translation: The books will be rewritten so the text is more in line with the editors’ notions of politically correct...
Your Social Security Money Is GONE, Understand?
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
After French protestors took the street to complain about the increase in the retirement age, I read quite a few jokes in social media about how protesting in France is the local pastime. That may be true, but let it not be said that Americans don't feel very, very...
Graffiti vs. Property Rights
by Walter E. Block | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
A recent headline screamed out: “New York Judge Awards $6.7 Million To 21 Graffiti Artists For Destroyed Murals." That might be right. There is an actual law on the books which could support such a judicial finding. Alternatively, the award was possibly made for a...
Marxist-Leninist Admits Libertarians Are Right About Cuba and North Korea!
by Keith Knight | Oct 28, 2022 | Blog
I asked a self-described "Marxist-Leninist" why do people risk life and limb to escape mostly socialist Cuba to the much more free market United States? And why is South Korea wealthier than North Korea? He had a one word answer: Sanctions. Sanctions are when...
Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)
by Keith Knight | Oct 7, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that...
What If…?
by Jim Cardoza | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What if we were free? What if government sought to serve the people, not control them? What if we own ourselves? What if property rights spring from that premise? What if each of us determine what makes life worthwhile? What if we need liberty to pursue happiness?...
This Is Who Will Build the Roads
by Starte Butone | May 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
A common counter-argument to many libertarian principles goes something along the lines of, “Without the government, who will build to roads?" Almost everyone who has tried to debate libertarian ideology will encounter this argument at some point. In the minds of many...
2/18/22 Anne Williamson on How the US Sabotaged Russia’s Economy after the Fall of the Soviet Union
by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews former reporter Anne Williamson about the flawed privatization of Russia after the fall of the USSR. While privatization had mixed success across the former Soviet Bloc, Russia ran into problems immediately with a poor definition of property rights....
In Defense Of Libertarianism
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 13, 2021 | Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
They’re usually very similar. There may be hills in one place, or flat terrain in others. It could be seventy-degrees in January, or minus-twenty. With all of their aesthetic differences, these locales usually have one thing in common: the spirit of libertarianism...
TGIF: Who’s the Aggressor? Who’s the Victim?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
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...
Debunking “Anarcho”-Communism. Patrick Smith and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Sep 16, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/UFV9soiabpo Böhm-Bawerk’s devastating refutation of the ... Marxian system remains defi nitive. It swept the boards in professional economics, and has remained dominant ever since, successfully inoculating economists, at least, against the Marxian...
Marxism Exploitation and Positive Rights Refuted
by Keith Knight | Jul 17, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/AiEMJJGxLCc Every man can enjoy the right of self-ownership, without special coercion upon anyone. But in the case of a “right” to schooling, this can only be provided if other people are coerced into fulfilling it. The “right” to schooling, to a job,...
The ‘Thorny Question’ of Public Property
by Per Bylund | Jun 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In a recent Mises Wire article, Jeff Deist commented on the squatting of Capitol Hill in Seattle. Contrasting Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s and Walter Block’s respective libertarian approaches to public property, Deist asked if the residents of the ‘CHAZ’ (Capitol Hill...
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A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
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...
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