TGIF: Ownership and Ideas by Sheldon Richman September 12, 2014 Like many libertarians, I’ve learned a lot from Murray Rothbard on a wide variety of subjects. Of course, no one gets everything right, especially someone as intellectually ambitious, multidisciplinary, and prolific as Rothbard. Nevertheless, reading the work of the man who left such a mark on the modern libertarian movement is as profitable as it is pleasurable. While rereading
The Libertarian Angle: Labor Day by Future of Freedom Foundation September 2, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: Labor Day. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Calling: Libertarians, Victim Blaming, and Structural Racism by Steven Horwitz August 28, 2014 The events in Ferguson, Missouri have opened up yet another national conversation on race. This time, however, something is different. The images of a mostly white police department dressed in military outfits using military weaponry and vehicles while attempting to control a largely black crowd protesting the killing of an unarmed black man by a white police officer has ...
The Libertarian Angle: Ferguson, Missouri, and the Militarization of the Cops by Future of Freedom Foundation August 18, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: Ferguson and the militarization of local police forces. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: Regime Change in Cuba by Future of Freedom Foundation August 5, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the decades long sparring contest with Cuba. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: I Can’t Help That I’m a Libertarian by Sheldon Richman August 1, 2014 It’s not easy being a libertarian. I am not looking for sympathy when I say that. I just mean to point out that rejecting the conventional wisdom on virtually (do I really need this adverb?) every political question, current and historical, can be wearying. Life could be so much simpler if it were otherwise. No doubt about that. I ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Drug War by Future of Freedom Foundation July 28, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the move to end the drug war. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: Israel, Gaza, and Egypt by Future of Freedom Foundation July 21, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
TGIF: Speaking to Nonlibertarians by Sheldon Richman July 11, 2014 If libertarians want to change how nonlibertarians’ think about government, they will need to understand how nonlibertarians think about government. By “nonlibertarians,” I mean the majority of people who spend little if any time pondering political theory, or what Murray Rothbard called political ethics. They may focus at times on particular government programs and actions, or on proposals for ...
The Libertarian Angle: Obamacare, Contraceptives, and Immigrant Children by Future of Freedom Foundation July 7, 2014 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: the Hobby Lobby ruling and the influx of immigrant children on the southern border. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.
What Social Animals Owe Each Other by Sheldon Richman July 1, 2014 If I were compelled to summarize the libertarian philosophy’s distinguishing feature while standing on one foot, I’d say the following: Every person owes it to all other persons not to aggress against them. This is known as the nonaggression principle, or NAP. What is the nature of this obligation? The first thing to notice is that it is unchosen. I never ...
Class Theory, Part 3: Libertarian Class Analysis Revisited by Anthony Gregory July 1, 2014 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 The Left has long dominated the basic idea of two classes in society — the common people and the power elite — each with its own, usually conflicting, interests. When the Left speaks that way, the Right tends to accuse it of “class warfare,” even though conservatives have ...