Trump should also confiscate all of Michael Atkinson's property and banish him and his family from the United States permanently. If you want to impeach and remove the president, he's plenty guilty of war crimes, but then so are all of you. What you may not do is...
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Dangerous Times
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Libertarianism
We live in dangerous times -- and not just medically and economically. Government executives all over the world -- with a few honorable exceptions -- are exercising autocratic power, that is, power without legislative or constitutional authority, in the name of...
Outraged at Thomas Massie? You Shouldn’t Be
by Derek Franklin | Mar 31, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Politics
Thomas Massie, U.S. House of Representative from Kentucky’s 4th District, took a lot of heat for trying to force a voice vote on the House floor to pass the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In a glorious show of...

Police, Military Begin Door to Door Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Rhode Island — In perhaps the most unprecedented attack on the Constitution on which the Free Thought Project has ever has ever reported, the governor of Rhode Island has announced that the National Guard will begin conducting house-to-house searches to hunt down New...

Capitalism Makes No Sense
by Per Bylund | Mar 29, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Few things are so confusing as the term capitalism. The definition itself appears clear enough, with the Oxford Dictionaries saying it is “an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than...

Panic Buying, Medical Rationing Underscore Importance of Free Markets
by Bradley Thomas | Mar 27, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
The recent coronavirus panic has provided a stark reminder about the scarcity of economic goods. From people hoarding and stockpiling common household items like toilet paper and hand sanitizer to the downright morbid reports of doctors in Italy and Spain having to...
No! ‘We’ Are Not the Government
by Michael Maharrey | Mar 21, 2020 | Featured Articles
During a speech in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1902, Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed, “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.” Most people believe this. And it's a bald-faced lie. Fernandina Beach, Florida, shut down all of its public beaches this...
What Limits Are Needed On Government During This Outbreak?
by Zack Sorenson | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
Disease epidemics are perfectly solvable by libertarian theory. If someone is infected with a dangerous disease, and they bring themselves into a position where they can infect others, then they have violated someone's rights. In an ideal ancap scenario, places like...
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What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
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