Commentators have said that people are being racist for worrying about Coronavirus and especially when they avoid Chinese people. We should never treat people poorly or be a jerk, but when you have a serious infectious disease problem with a lot of unknowns, the use...
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The State Is a Predator. It Can’t Be Used to Achieve Libertarian Ends
Tyler Cowen, who is said to be “known as one of the libertarian world’s deepest thinkers,” recently wrote a blog post entitled “What Libertarianism Has Become and Will Become — State Capacity Libertarianism.” There, Cowen asserts that libertarianism “is now pretty...
Sabra and Shatila
Originally published at "The Massacre" in The Libertarian Forum, October 1982. All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men...
News Roundup 2/4/20
US News The results from the Democrats Iowa Caucus have been delayed. The party says technical problems with a new app are behind the delay. [Link] Sen Sanders is leading all 2020 candidates - including Trump - in campaign donations from soldiers. [Link] Zerohedge was...
Is Anarcho-Capitalism A Contradiction?
Is it possible for a stateless society to adequately protect property rights? Any Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist has no doubt been confronted with the assertion that a state is necessary to enforce the property rights so vital to a market-based, capitalist system. Is...
News Roundup 2/3/20
US News Trump places visa bans on people from Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, and Myanmar. People from Tanzania and Sudan are no longer eligible for diversity visas. [Link] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ukraine and told the country it will have support from the...
House Votes to End Iraq War
On FPF #450, I discuss the House vote to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force. The bill was passed in 2002, allowing President Bush to start a war with Saddam's regime in Iraq. Saddam was hung in 2006 and, his army disbanded. However, both...
Deplatformed: How Big Tech Companies & Corporate America Subvert the Second Amendment
Twitter permanently banned the libertarian financial website Zero Hedge from the platform on Friday—January 31st after it published an article questioning the involvement of a Chinese scientist in the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus. Anyone familiar with...
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