Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution by John W. Whitehead April 25, 2024 Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference ... The Thought Police would get him ...
Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Part 2 by Richard M. Ebeling April 23, 2024 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When the second German-language edition of Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money ...
Tyranny by the Numbers by John W. Whitehead April 19, 2024 The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is ...
The Case for Libertarian Internationalism by Laurence M. Vance April 16, 2024 Libertarians and conservatives share a common enemy. Whether it is described as liberalism, progressivism, collectivism, or socialism; whether its adherents term themselves liberals, progressives, ...
How Long Should the Workweek Be? by Laurence M. Vance April 15, 2024 Bernie Sanders, the self-described socialist, former Democratic presidential candidate, and current independent senator from Vermont, is at it again. For years, he has supported the ...
The Government Wants to Play God by John W. Whitehead April 11, 2024 The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still ...
What’s Good About Aid to Ukraine and Israel? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2024 Advocates of foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel are patting themselves on the back after the passage of a $95 billion bill that includes $61 billion to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel. They’re saying that such aid demonstrates how good, caring, and compassionate America is. In the case of Israel, the aid supposedly demonstrates that America is not 100 percent antisemitic because ...
A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman by Jacob G. Hornberger April 24, 2024 A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan twenty years ago. It’s written by Bill Dwyre, a former sports editor for the Times. Dwyre reminds us that Tillman was motivated to join the military after the ...
Our Drug-War Daddy by Jacob G. Hornberger April 23, 2024 At the heart of the decades-long war on drugs is the notion that the federal government is people’s daddy. One of the purposes of a daddy is to keep his children from doing bad things. One of the most important parts of being a daddy is to prevent children from doing bad things to themselves, such as putting the wrong things into their ...
Don’t Kill Migrant “Invaders” by Jacob G. Hornberger April 18, 2024 For the last few years, advocates of immigration controls have claimed, with all seriousness, that migrants who enter the United States illegally are “invaders.” Whenever I receive an email from them, I give them free legal advice: Don’t kill the “invaders." After all, in a war in which one nation has invaded another nation, under international law the people in the invaded nation ...
Anti-Discrimination Laws April 18, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of anti-discrimination laws on freedom and ...
The Impact of Massive Federal Spending and Debt April 12, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of out-of-control federal spending and debt ...
The Importance of the Price System April 4, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the importance of a price system in ...
1913: A Critical Year in the Loss of Liberty March 28, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss how 1913 brought into existence the federal income ...