How I Learned to Reject Political Partisanship and Embrace Liberty
July 1, 2019 – Rory Margraf …… A journey toward embracing the ideology of individual liberty and peace. Continue reading →
Is the Government Really Accountable to the People?
June 27, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Peace and prosperity is diminished for taxpaying citizens because politicians and bureaucrats are not “accountable” for their actions in any meaningful sense of the word. Continue reading →
Why the Amorality of Markets Is Preferable to the Immorality of Coercion
June 20, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Liberty and voluntary relationships evoke the best in individuals and, therefore, society. So why do some people insist on using government coercion to impose their unattainable utopian visions on us? Continue reading →
Free Market Capitalism as the Antidote to the World’s Ills
June 19, 2019 – Richard Ebeling …… Liberal capitalism enables a degree of peace, harmony and respectful tolerance of the choices and ways of honest living for everyone in society to which nothing else compares. Continue reading →
12 Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government
June 13, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… Tolstoy once said that “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” Continue reading →
Private Government in Genoa
May 27, 2019 – Lawrence M. Ludlow …… At the close of the Middle Ages, the people of Genoa refused to trust government to manage the city and its many trading centers in a conventional way. Continue reading →
Liberty Means Repealing, not Reforming, Social Security
April 16, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Liberty necessary entails the absence of infringements on liberty. Therefore, the attainment of a free society necessarily entails a lifting, dismantling, or repeal of infringements on liberty. Continue reading →
Two Ways Our World Resembles “1984”
April 10, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… It had been at least 25 years, and reading ‘1984’ today was a very different experience. Continue reading →
Bastiat on How the Modern State Commits the Very Evils It Was Created to Prevent
March 26, 2019 – Gary Galles …… The confusion about socialism derives in part from its traditional definition of government ownership of the means of production. Continue reading →
‘Captive State’ Probes Depths of Despair Under Oppression
March 21, 2019 – Samuel Staley …… The movie ‘Captive State’ challenges the view that citizens should simply accept their fate and the rule of their officials rather than live freely, even when they live in a democracy. Continue reading →