https://youtu.be/0MY12U37IVA In order for the state to function, the mass of the people has to believe in its legitimacy. To that end, the state employs a class of professional apologists and controls the means of propaganda, often through dominance of the education...
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3/24/23 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard’s Victory in Arizona and How You Can Help Keep the Momentum Going This Monday
by Scott Horton | Mar 25, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Dan McKnight returns to the show to talk about Defend the Guard’s recent success in Arizona and how you can help bring about another victory this Monday in Texas. Defend the Guard is state-level legislation that bars Congress from deploying...
3/10/23 Jim Bovard on Waco, 30 Years Later
by Scott Horton | Mar 16, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Jim Bovard is back on the show to discuss the Federal Government’s siege at Waco thirty years ago. Scott and Bovard reflect on how they both first learned about the story. Bovard then goes through his experience reporting on the government’s...
3/10/23 Philip Weiss on the American Jews Waking Up to Netanyahu’s Extremism
by Scott Horton | Mar 12, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Philip Weiss joins the show to discuss developments concerning the Israeli government’s support among American Jews. They talk about a column written recently by Thomas Friedman, who is essentially a neoconservative who presents himself as a...
Find the Fed w/Mark Aaron
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 10, 2023 | Year Zero
I asked Mark Aaron, 1 bit of 2Bit Podcast, to join me to discuss the rightwing infighting that has escalated of late. 2Bit Podcast The Marc Clair Show Discord Year Zero YouTube Libertarian Institute 19 Skills Pdf Autonomy Course Critical Thinking Course Patreon...
2/24/23 Jonathan Ofir on the Israeli Elites Warning of Apartheid
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Jonathan Ofir about a recent article he wrote at Mondoweiss. The article highlights the latest mainstream Israeli voice, a journalist named Ben-Yishai, to voice concerns that the current Israeli government may institute apartheid....
WATCH: 14 Year Old Girl Held at Gunpoint Over Seatbelt Violation
by Matt Agorist | Feb 27, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the land of the free, if law enforcement witnesses you driving your personally owned vehicle with dark window tint or without your seatbelt on, they will pull you over and issue a citation, otherwise known as extortion. If you refuse to acknowledge this extortion...
War is a Euphemism for Theft Funded Mass Murder
by Keith Knight | Feb 18, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must then be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper...
Bipartisan Lawmakers Seek to Stop Billion-Dollar Arms Sale to Nigeria
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 16, 2023 | News
Two Representatives are demanding the White House rescind a $1 billion arms sale to Nigeria. The demand was issued after reports of horrific abuses by the Nigerian military. In April, the Joe Biden administration approved the sale of attack helicopters to Nigeria for...
What I Learned From Thomas Sowell – Thomas E. Woods. Jr.
by Keith Knight | Feb 10, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/OL03LyD1NAU But the number of blacks in professional, technical, and other high-level occupations more than doubled in the decade preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964.38 In other occupations, gains by blacks were greater during the 1940s—when there...
Man Naps in a Car Parked In His Grandmother’s Driveway, So Cops Shoot Him
by Matt Agorist | Feb 9, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On New Year's Eve, Anthony Maclin, 24, was asleep in his car in his grandmother's driveway. He had committed no crime, was not suspected of a crime, and harmed no one. However, none of this was a defense against three police officers surrounding his car, firing for...
AntiWar Alliance: The Dissident Left & Libertarians
by Keith Knight | Feb 7, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/PuyVsR8rRBI To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
by Keith Knight | Jan 28, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Price Inflation Slows, But the Economy Keeps Getting Worse
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 26, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new Producer Price Index (PPI) data on Wednesday, and it looks like the rate of increase in price inflation is slowing. Nonetheless, year-over-year price inflation in December remained near 40-year highs, and shows the...
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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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