https://youtu.be/ekldvZ7Ykn8 Once admit any right of secession whatever, and there is no logical stopping-point short of the right of individual secession, which logically entails anarchism, since then individuals may secede and patronize their own defense agencies,...
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by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
Libertarianism: The Moral & Economic Case. Sheldon Richman & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Sep 18, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/S4QzTiCVsb0 The choice is not between cooperation and a Hobbesian war of all against all, but between free and forced association. Sheldon Richman What Social Animals Owe to Each Other 0:00 - Quote from What Social Animals Owe to Each Other 0:34 -...
Markets Not Capitalism w/ Sheldon Richman
by Tommy Salmons | Aug 1, 2020 | Year Zero
Tommy is joined by Sheldon Richman, Executive Editor and Co-Founder at The Libertarian Institute. They discuss Sheldon's newest book, What Social Animals Owe To Each Other, as well as why libertarians should abandon the term Capitalism for Freed Markets....
What Social Animals Owe to Each Other
by Scott Horton | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog
Hooray! Announcing the publication of executive editor Sheldon Richman's new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other! These essays, written over the past 20 years, have a single underlying theme: namely, that we human beings, as social animals, need individual...
Matt Taibbi on the PC Overkillers
by Scott Horton | Jun 28, 2020 | Blog
You don't have to agree with him on everything, but he's a great writer and he's sure right about this bullshit. What you guys need is some good Sheldon Richman. Coming up!
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Sheldon Richman Articlesby Sheldon Richman These essays, written over the past 20 years, have a single underlying theme: namely, that we human beings, as social animals, need individual freedom to fully flourish. by Sheldon Richman In this incredible volume of essays,...
This Morning On Antiwar Radio
by Scott Horton | Feb 2, 2020 | Blog
Sheldon Richman on Trump's horrible "Vision" for Palestine. 8:30 Pacific, 90.7 FM, KPFK in L.A. kpfk.org.
Free Man Beyond the Wall
by Scott Horton | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A couple of years ago a bold new meme warrior appeared on Twitter and started converting the world to libertarianism through the power of funny pictures. "Mance Rayder" quickly became one of the country's most popular libertarian podcasters and social media...
This Weekend, the 26th and 27th, I’ll Be At The Texas Book Festival
by Scott Horton | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
You know, down at the Texas state capital in Austin. Pretty sure I'll be right on Lavaca Street between 11th and 12th. I should have copies of all the Libertarian Institute books, Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and The Great Ron Paul: The Scott...
Israel and Palestine: A Reexamination
by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog
Check out this great interview of Sheldon Richman about his new book Coming to Palestine on the Tom Woods show.
9/28/19 Sheldon Richman on the Real Story of Israel and Palestine
by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, Coming to Palestine, a collection of Richman's essays on the founding of Israel. Richman was raised in a Jewish household to believe that Israel's cause was just and worthy of support. He now believes that the...
Coming to Palestine by Sheldon Richman
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Scott Horton
The Libertarian Institute is proud to announce the publication of our latest book, Coming to Palestine, by our heroic executive editor, Sheldon Richman. In this incredible volume of essays, collected over 30 years, Sheldon Richman exposes the true history of Israeli...
In The Middle Of The Night In The Village
by Steven Woskow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
It’s a scene repeated every night – soldiers and Border Police officers gathering at a military base in the West Bank, waiting for the order to head out for another arrest raid. Jerusalem Post reporter Anna Ahronheim rides along with the IDF troops on raids of...
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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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