A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to...
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The EU Wants to Spy on Europeans’ Internet Use
by Robert Blumen | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
The European Commission is a legislative body in the European Union with regulatory authority over digital technology. The EC’s eIDAS Article 45, a proposed regulation, would deliberately weaken areas of internet security that the industry has carefully evolved and...
Michael Whiteley’s Injustice
by Russ Bedard | Jan 9, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Editor's Note: The case of Michael Whiteley was previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's late managing editor, William Norman Grigg. I'm the voice of Michael Whiteley; a slight stutter when frustrated, a laugh rarely and irritation always just below the...
The Truth About Government Agencies w/ Jim Bovard
by Keith Knight | Jan 3, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/izgX-GhYh9s Federal law enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than all the burglars steal nationwide. The IRS pilfered more cash from private bank accounts because of alleged paperwork errors than the total...
12/12/23 Jim Bovard on the Death of American Liberty
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Jim Bovard to discuss his new book Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty. They talk about Bovard’s approach to writing, the Covid hysteria, how easily the government can seize property, gun control, Waco and the time Bovard...
A Libertarian Defense of Surrogacy
by Benjamin Seevers | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Amidst announcements of gay conservatives having children by surrogate, commentators such as Michael Knowles and Katy Faust levied criticism against the practice of surrogacy in general. These commentators, however, get a lot wrong. Let’s examine each of the most...
The Duty
by Kym Robinson | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The drumbeats of war seem to be the heartbeat of history and most often requires a generation of boys to wage it. Boys of a certain age are assumed to become combatants, to be used as fodder and be made killers or charged guilty of such potential, regardless of...
Annoying Protests Are a Price of Freedom
by Brad Pearce | Nov 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Over the past couple of years there has been a trend where climate activists deface valuable art in order to “raise awareness” about the perceived catastrophic threat of global warming. It’s a crime against culture and private property which has discredited their...
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Analysis of the ICJ’s Ruling that Israel’s Occupation Is Illegal
Scott Horton and I discuss the significance of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal.
Doubling Down on Failure: Ford Fiasco Follies
A new updated CRS report dated 5 August 2024 is out on the USS Ford debacle. I read these reports so you don't have to. For plenty of reasons, the carrier is the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Yet the US insists on spending tens of billions of dollars on...
The Case for Not Voting
Bretigne Shaffer and I explain why, if you want to effect real change, the most sensible thing you can do is to not vote.
The Royal Navy Submarine Force Remains Surfaced
The Royal Navy is experiencing readiness and maintenance shortfalls in its submarine force that is similar to the throughput problems for the US nuclear submarine forces. The logistical tail for exquisite platforms like nuclear submarines is enormous and a first world...
The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
Anti-War Blog – Not Enough Paper Cranes
When I was in primary school we were taught about a little Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes. She was one of the many victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast, dying after the initial detonation from radiation sickness. One of many thousands who...