“Today the tenets of this nineteenth-century philosophy of liberalism are almost forgotten. In the United States “liberal” means today a set of ideas and political postulates that in every regard are the opposite of all that liberalism meant to the preceding...
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Remembering Rose Wilder Lane
by Timothy Sandefur | Dec 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
It was on this day in 1886 that the journalist and author Rose Wilder Lane was born in a little house on the prairie that she and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, would later make famous. A brilliant, moody, and independent spirit, Rose was eventually to become one...
The Libertarian Legacy of Geneva’s Graduate Institute of International Studies
by Richard Ebeling | Dec 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On September 16, 1939, barely more than two weeks after the beginning of the Second World War in Europe with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, the “Austrian”-oriented British economist Lionel Robbins finished the preface to his short book, The Economic...
A Tribute to the U.S. Marine Corps
by John Weeks | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent United States Marine Corps recruitment advertisement tells us: “When there are battles to win for America’s future, there is one constant: Marines.” Despite the advert being a minute-long, propagandizing call to imperial action, this line rings true. And it...
Repeal All Laws Against the Phony Crime of ‘Seditious Conspiracy’
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
On Tuesday, a District of Columbia jury convicted Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy in relation to the January 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol building. Three other defendants were acquitted of seditious conspiracy but convicted of other felonies....
There Is No ‘Master Planner’ Behind the State’s Curtain
by David Hathaway | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
It’s the state. There is no master plan. There is no big brain running the show. The grand, seemingly “coordinated,” societal evil we observe is just a product of the state. It comes from the state sanctioning a market for evil; a market for the proceeds of theft; a...
Will Joe Biden Make the Trains Run on Time?
by Jim Bovard | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
“I intend to be the most pro-union President leading the most pro-union administration in American history," President Joe Biden promised last year. But Uncle Joe has found his “inner Mussolini” and nothing is as important as the trains running on time. Biden is...
Kamala Harris Blunders Philippines Visit, Stirs Conflict with China
by Nickie Deahl | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines last week in what can only be described as three days of warmongering, hypocrisy, and another huge provocation against China. Harris spent her time spouting empty platitudes of affirmation regarding U.S. defense...
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Further China Reading
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?
They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
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