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A Nation of Snitches
by Scott Horton | May 5, 2020 | Blog
Our countrymen. Largely confined to their homes and worried about the spread of the coronavirus and its risks to their own health or that of loved ones, a segment of the United States has turned informant, calling the police, public health authorities and the...
Libertarianism and Externalities – Sam Harris REBUTTED
by Keith Knight | May 5, 2020 | Blog
https://youtu.be/4kUMweevpfs Externalities occur in markets, but they also exist in governments. Government is the ultimate negative externality- they impose costs on non-consenting third parties. The existence of externalities does NOT justify the existence of a...
Coronavirus Lockdown: The Political Versus The Voluntary
by Bradley Thomas | May 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
The government lockdown is mandatory. Re-opening is not. The contrast is stark and worth exploring as it underscores the difference between political and voluntary means of organizing society. Most states have imposed mandatory “stay at home” or “shelter in place”...
5/1/20 Daniel Davis on Getting American Troops out of Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | May 3, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis joins the show to talk about Trump’s apparent interest in getting U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Trump has signaled that the coronavirus crisis might be an excuse to get out—after all if America is having trouble taking...
The Salafist Roots of the Syrian Uprising
by William Van Wagenen | Apr 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the mainstream view, the Syrian conflict began in the Spring of 2011 with a period of peaceful, pro-democracy protests, which were then brutally suppressed by the Assad regime. As the liberal-left Intercept describes it, “Syrian civilians rose up to demand...
How To Get Cops To Turn On The State
by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2020 | Blog
Cut their pay. From RT https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=znsk4bh3Jg4&feature=emb_logo
4/24/20 Grant Smith on the IRS’s Israeli Settlement Corruption
by Scott Horton | Apr 27, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his organization’s Freedom of Information lawsuit against the IRS, an attempt to get the agency to reveal its policies on tax-exempt organizations overseas. Of particular interest is the shocking fact that billions of dollars of...
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Looking for a Good Cause?
The problem for (not with) the younger generations is that all the good social causes have been taken and substantially addressed. (Of course, nothing can be perfect.) But hold on: one good cause is left: political-economic individualism. Looking for a good cause to...
Palestine and Israel: What’s It All About?
Current events aside, the fundamental reason to favor the Palestinian cause over the Zionist project is not that the Israelis are Western and the Palestinians are not. That's knee-jerk woke "decolonial" claptrap, which does the Palestinians no favors. There's nothing...
The Least Curious Profession
My friend Isaac Morehouse just posted this: "I think the greatest failing of the bureaucratic cartelized medical machine is its complete destruction of curiosity. How many mainstream medical practitioners are passionately curious? I've not met one. Least curious...
Libertarianism: Manual to Humanity
Brian Gray has an essay, originally featured at the 2019 Libertarian Scholars Conference, making the case for libertarianism's non-aggression principle and the concept of an objective, universal morality at his blog Anarcholife.
Kyle Anzalone Talks Israel-Palestine with Judge Nap
Libertarian Institute news editor Kyle Anzalone joins the Judge to discuss America's complicity in Israeli war crimes in Gaza, where more than 24,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, according to local health officials.
Even American Neo-Nazis Have Abandoned Ukraine
Editor's Note: The activities of Christopher Pohlhaus were previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's Kyle Anzalone. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, neo-Nazis in the U.S. expressed widespread support for...
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