If you watched the Fed Chair Jerome Powell testify before the senate and the House, you heard over and over that banks are well capitalized. The non-sequitur should inspire the Shakespearean quote “Methinks you protest too much.” The very next day after the hearings,...
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Is Heaven Communist?
by Evan Patterson | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
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...
How Ron Paul Gets Liberty Right
by Lew Rockwell | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
The great Dr. Ron Paul has been right about all the major issues that confront the world today. He is right about the Fed, the Ukraine war, the FBI, and so much else. How has he managed to do that? What has given him wisdom unique on the political scene today? The...
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...
Part-Time Employment is Growing Faster than Full-Time Employment
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 8, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 517,000 jobs, which was well above expectations. The words used by the media to describe the report included “stunner” and “wow.”...
Learning Economics From the Catholics
by Connor Mortell | Jan 3, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
While the average person thinks economics begins with Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations, readers of the Mises Wire know that the story goes back much further than that. Members of the Austrian school commonly describe their earliest intellectual predecessors, the...
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...
A Permanent Solution to Deep State Tyranny
by Keith Knight | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually...
How the Government Exacerbates Cancer
by Walter E. Block | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
This essay is dedicated to the memory of Witold Kwaśnicki, a Polish libertarian who recently passed away at the tender age of seventy. He died from pancreatic cancer. He expired not in a matter of years after diagnosis, nor even months. Rather, he succumbed in a...
The Patent, an Enemy of Innovation
by Dakota Hensley | Jul 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The foundation of our economy is the patent. If you invent something, you need a patent. We assume that without patent law, society would be stuck in an economic malaise. We'd be stuck in the Dark Ages. However, that isn't true. The opposite is. Patents hold our...
Refuting the Progressive Idea of Equality of Opportunity (feat. Danny Duchamp)
by Keith Knight | Jul 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/6FYCnlDhefE ... the natural inequality of ability and of interest among men must make elites inevitable, the only sensible course is to abandon the chimera of equality and accept the universal necessity of leaders and followers. Dr. Murray N....
Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (feat. Scott Horton)
by Keith Knight | Jul 1, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/HKltpRa7a-8 ... the use of nuclear or similar weapons, or the threat thereof, is a crime against humanity for which there can be no justification...it is precisely the characteristic of modern weapons that they cannot be used selectively, cannot be...
National Review Senior Editor Turns Rothbardian Ep. 220
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 20, 2022 | Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/sJXF9jgj1L4 Managing Editor of the Libertarian Institute and longtime friend and guest of the show Keith Knight joins me in this week's episode to review an article by Joseph Sobran. Sobran was the Senior Editor of the National Review, but questioned...
10 “Pro-Choice” Arguments – DEBUNKED (w/ Kristan Hawkins)
by Keith Knight | Jun 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/vgo8Uys-Xs4 The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness —...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
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...
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