I think George Orwell has explained this very well: “By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or...
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Ukraine Hits Russian Orthodox Clerics with Sanctions
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2022 | News
Kiev has imposed sanctions on 10 top clerics in the Russian Orthodox church. The move came after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he was seeking to ban any religion with ties to the Russian Federation from operating in Ukraine.

Prophetic Patrick Henry’s Warning on the Constitution’s ‘Implied Authority’
by TJ Martinell | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Patrick Henry’s impassioned remarks during the final days of the Virginia Ratifying Convention were the culmination of week-long arguments between skeptics of the proposed Constitution and its supporters, such as James Madison. In modern context, it is easy at first...

White House Says Turkey Has ‘Right to Defend Itself’ From Kurds
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 23, 2022 | News
The White House said Tuesday that Turkey has the “right to defend themselves” from Kurdish militant groups in northern Syria and Iraq following massive Turkish airstrikes in the region.

Down With Content Moderation!
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
Back when I was involved with Parler, I wrote an article about FaceBook and it’s then-newly anointed Oversight Board. A more apt name might have been Tourqemada, condemning people to a digital inquisition. Free speech frauds did not condemn the concept of this board,...

Ukraine Plans to Create ‘Israel-Like’ Arms Industry To Produce NATO-Caliber Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 12, 2022 | News
Kiev is planning a buildup of its weapons industry to produce more sophisticated arms, with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov saying government takeovers of several companies will help Kiev to create an “army of drones” and other NATO-caliber weapons.

Liberty, Freedom, and Sovereignty Aren’t On Today’s Ballot
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Today, once again, we have the most important, crucial election in the history of mankind. The fate of the planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe depends upon it. Even God is worried, praying. Maybe it will provoke an extinction level event. I, personally, will...

US, South Korea Begin Massive Aerial War Games
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 31, 2022 | News
Washington and Seoul’s advanced warplanes kicked off five days of round-the-clock military exercises on Monday. Pyongyang slammed the war games and suggested it would deliver a “powerful” response.
10/22/22 Patrick MacFarlane on the Populist Right’s Taiwan Hypocrisy
by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane, the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, to discuss an article he wrote recently as well as the new direction he’s taking his podcast Vital Dissent. Scott and MacFarlane first dig into the...

COI #336: White House Abandons Peace, Prepares for Years of War
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 13, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #336, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Joe Biden administration’s escalatory policies quickly heating up Washington’s Cold Wars with Russia and China. Kyle talks about how the hawks in the Biden regime and their allies are gearing up to support the...

Power Elite Analysis: Lessons from the ‘Conspiracist’ Right and New Left Academics
by Brandan P. Buck | Oct 4, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
The United States is amidst a full-blown moral panic concerning the authenticity and proliferation of online discourse. This latest culture of information anxiety over "misinformation" is an example of what one preeminent scholar called "conspiracy panics." This panic...

The Solution to Inflation: End the Federal Reserve’s Monopoly on Money
by Lawrence H. White | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
Recently, an investment advisor and Bitcoin proponent tweeted the claim that “[f]or most of human history” the “[s]eparation of money and state was the norm, even if the state stamped their ruler's face on the coin.” Some strong disagreement (and some strong support)...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Travels to Taiwan, Third Congressional Visit this Month
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 25, 2022 | Blog
Reuters reports Senator Marsha Blackburn arrived in Taiwan on Thursday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taipei in August, setting off a massive escalation with China. Blackburn is the third Congressional delegation to visit Taiwan this month. Beijing views the...

Study Exposes Misinformation Campaign Pushing Pro-American Narratives on Twitter, Facebook
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | News
Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory released a study showing a “series of covert campaigns over a period of almost five years” that pushed pro-Western misinformation on Twitter, Facebook and five other social media platforms. The operations targeted people...
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Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...
How Not to Defend “Capitalism” Against” Socialism”
I challenge you to show me a lamer "debate" over "capitalism" and "socialism." (Don't worry; it's not about Bill Maher.)