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The Natural Right to Be Free

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It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom by Andrew P. Napolitano (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011); 240 pages. Three recent books on libertarianism — Jeffrey A. Miron’s Libertarianism, from A to Z (Basic Books, 2010); Jacob H. Huebert’s Libertarianism Today (Praeger, 2010); and Tom G. Palmer’s Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice (Cato Institute, 2009) — although they are quite different as to their nature and purpose, have one thing in common: the word libertarian in their title. A possible drawback to those titles is that people who have an aversion to what they think is libertarianism might not be inclined to peruse those works. Is it possible to have a book on libertarianism that doesn’t include the word in the title? Andrew Napolitano’s new book, It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom, answers that question in the affirmative. It is most ...

Nuclear Hypocrisy

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Republican presidential candidates and officials in the U.S. government from the president on down have turned up the rhetoric against Iran. In his State of the Union address, Barack Obama stated, “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated that “it is the policy of this administration that Iran cannot be permitted to have a nuclear weapon and no option has ever been taken off the table.” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner maintains that the Obama administration “is absolutely committed to preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.” During a recent campaign stop in Cleveland, Newt Gingrich warned about the dangers to Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and New York from an Iranian nuclear strike. Said Gingrich, “Remember what it felt like on 9/11 when 3,100 Americans ...

The Missing Peace Dividend

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I recall watching the TV news the evening that Germans were taking sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall. They were smashing it into little souvenirs, reminders of a world split in two for decades. I allowed myself to feel happy for a people who had never known any type of freedom, anything of life that was not under authoritarian rule. After all, Hitler’s fascism ruled from 1933 to the end of WWII, and that was followed by an equally repressive communist regime under the Soviet thumb. Good for the East Germans, finally. Then there was the night when the hammer and sickle came down from the Kremlin, and the Russian flag was raised in its place. The Soviet Union, the “Evil Empire,” was no more. Now there would just be Russia and the various other former Soviet republics. People there would be free. The Cold War was over, and there was talk of a peace dividend. Peace. No more fear of the ...

Free Enterprise versus Immigration Socialism

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Well, the GOP candidates had all the correct libertarian, free-market mantras out last night: pro-free enterprise, pro-capitalism, pro-free market, pro-private property, pro-fundamental rights, pro-Constitution, anti-socialism, and anti-regulation. And then came immigration, and all those mantras went out the window. It was actually amusing, not only because the candidates didn’t seem aware of the contradiction, but also because neither did the mainstream ...

Is Ron Paul an Isolationist?

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The word isolationist is a pejorative term used to ridicule advocates of U.S. nonintervention in foreign affairs, intimidate their supporters, and stifle debate over U.S. foreign policy. Throughout the twentieth century, opponents of U.S. intervention in foreign wars were smeared as isolationists. Conservative and Republican opponents of Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, although they may argue and fight among themselves, ...