https://youtu.be/sCH5A1I7CdA “Discrimination,” in the sense of choosing favorably or unfavorably in accordance with whatever criteria a person may employ, is an integral part of freedom of choice, and hence of a free society. But of course in the free market any such discrimination is costly, and will have to be paid for by the property owner concerned. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., For a New Liberty, p. 255 Wilfred Reilly, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Kentucky State University. Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About by Wilfred Reilly Wilfred Reilly on Twitter...
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TGIF: Our Age of Character Assassination
I am not one for romanticizing the past because in every alleged golden age you find grumblers looking longingly to some earlier alleged golden age. Nevertheless, our own time has earned its share of criticism. For example, we live in a time when, for many, character assassination is the preferred way to rebut the people they disagree with. Why bother to painstakingly refute positions you dislike when instead you can accuse their advocates of one vice or another? It's not only easier; it's also a twofer: you (seem to) discredit the position and you perhaps ruin its advocate. So if he...
Race Crazy w/Charles Love
Charles Love, author of Race Crazy, joined me to discuss the cultural shift around race, how race is used for ominous purposes, BLM, the Movement for Black Lives, and the 1619 Project. Charles Love Race Crazy Discord Libertarian Institute 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Donate Patreon...
TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's forget about "the country" and the rest of the world. Let's individually pursue happiness. All I'm saying is that it's finally time for the politicians, bureaucrats, and know-it-all intelligentsia, left or right, to get out of the way and let us set our own agendas. Too self-centered? Well, too bad. Much evil results from...
For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
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 protest was a potent little ruckus that I almost missed. On a sunny late summer day in 2013, I ambled to downtown Washington to hike with a bunch of folks who enjoyed bantering as much as I did. The route for the jaunt started on the National Mall, passing by the Smithsonian, heading toward the World War II Memorial and points...
TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison
Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to everyone in our society. As the wise Glenn Loury would say, they are playing with fire. By polarization, of any kind, I mean more than merely a vigorous disagreement over issues or even basic principles. That's fine. Rather, I mean something dogmatic, obsessive, and fanatical, in which virtually everything in the world is seen through a single lens and everyone is expected to act and speak in a certain way, with stern consequences for the noncompliant. It can happen in...
What is Critical Race Theory? – James Lindsay, Ph.D.
https://youtu.be/a-_zXuMkTWw ... the whole point of politics is to “divide” people, to separate people by principle and ideology and to have them slug it out, each trying to gain a majority support of the population. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. Irrepressible Rothbard, p. 289 Find James Lindsay here: https://newdiscourses.com/ Buy Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity- and Why It Harms Everybody on Amazon here Odysee BitChute Spotify Minds Archive...
Debunking the White Male Privilege Conspiracy Theory! James Lindsay & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/0DaAhcRCGrg ... there can be no more blatant case of involuntary servitude than our entire system of conscription. ... What else is involuntary servitude if not the draft? Murray N. Rothbard For a New Liberty, p. 98 ... it is the State that is robbing all classes, rich and poor, black and white, worker and businessman alike; it is the State that is ripping us all off ; it is the State that is the common enemy of mankind. Murray N. Rothbard Libertarian Forum v. 2, p. 787 James Lindsay is an American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr....
TGIF: Defend the Enlightenment!
The libertarian philosophy is embedded in Enlightenment liberalism. This is clearly seen in its commitment to free inquiry (reason) and free speech, the full realization of which, I argue, requires complete respect for individual rights, including property rights. Unfortunately we live at a time when those values are increasingly under assault from from a variety intellectuals and activists despite political and cultural differences among themselves. We hear prominent people ask--and it's really an assertion disguised as a question--whether free inquiry and free speech are really all they...
Critical Race Theory Explained and Debunked. James Lindsay & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/UdRaJXs9HbE Capitalist production is the only method by which poverty can be wiped out. ... only freedom allows people to produce in the best and most efficient way possible. Force and violence may “distribute,” but it cannot produce. Intervention hampers production, and socialism cannot calculate. Since production of consumer satisfactions is maximized on the free market, the free market is the only way to abolish poverty. Dictates and legislation cannot do so; in fact, they can only make matters worse. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p....