Daily Articles

How Evil Are Politicians? Part 1

by George Leef June 12, 2023

Part 1 | Part 2 How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery by Bryan Caplan (Bet On It Books, 2022) If you are a libertarian, or just someone with a streak of skepticism about government, you will enjoy and profit from reading How Evil are Politicians? The author, Bryan Caplan, is a professor of economics at George Mason ...

Conspirators for the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead June 8, 2023

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy isn’t a real crime to anyone but the U.S. government. To be convicted of seditious conspiracy, the charge levied against Stewart Rhodes who was sentenced to 18 ...

The Korean War Was a Senseless Waste of American Lives

by Laurence M. Vance June 6, 2023

The remains of an American soldier were laid to rest on Memorial Day at the Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia after a police car with lights flashing escorted the casket to the cemetery. What made this funeral service so unique and so tragic is that Pfc. Luther Herschel Story was killed on September 1, 1950, during ...

Snowden and the Fight for American Privacy

by James Bovard June 5, 2023

Edward Snowden did heroic service in awakening Americans to Washington ravishing their privacy. Snowden’s “reward” is to be banished in Russia without a snowball’s chance in hell of a fair trial if he returns to America. But as he courageously declared, “I would rather be without a state than without a voice.” He explained why he leaked ...

No, It Is Not Possible to be an Imperial Libertarian

by Ted Galen Carpenter May 31, 2023

There have been a distressing number of occasions in which someone has said to me that they embrace libertarian principles and positions—“except for foreign policy.”  That stance has usually translated into loyal support for the U.S. government’s militarized approach to world affairs during the Cold War and throughout the period since the collapse of the Soviet Union.  ...

Rein in the FBI

by John W. Whitehead May 26, 2023

“One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people… They work for the establishment and the corporations and the politicos to keep things as they are. And they want to frighten and chill ...

The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

by John W. Whitehead May 17, 2023

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”—James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts of money? Surround the entire country with ...

Libertarian Plan to Simplify Taxpaying Misses the Mark

by Laurence M. Vance May 15, 2023

Another April 15 has come and gone. The inaugural and dreaded Tax Day initially fell on March 1, 1914. There was no withholding tax, so the full amount of federal taxes owed by individuals was payable on Tax Day. In 1919, the date was moved to March 15, and in 1955, the date was moved again to April 15. This year, ...

Danger Within: The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

by John W. Whitehead May 11, 2023

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”—James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts of money? Surround the entire country with ...

The Smoke and Mirrors of the Debt Ceiling Crisis

by Richard M. Ebeling May 8, 2023

The Washington political establishment, the social-media pundits, and the editorial pages of many newspapers have all been warning of a fiscal Armageddon if the national debt limit is not raised in the very near future. The danger, it is said, is that the U.S. government might default on its interest payments, sending the domestic economy and the international financial ...

The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government

by John W. Whitehead May 5, 2023

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek ...

The Terrible Truth about U.S. Foreign Policy

by Laurence M. Vance May 1, 2023

Many conservatives just don’t get it when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. After Lu Shaye, China’s outspoken ambassador to France, stated during a televised interview last month that the former Soviet republics “have no effective status in international law because there is no international agreement to recognize their status as sovereign countries,” American Enterprise Institute (