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I received a very interesting email this week, asking the following question of me: “What keeps you from giving up, abandoning all hope, and despairing when so few people seem to be able to grasp that freedom is better than control?”
Those of us living today obviously live in a statist society, consisting primarily of the following major infringements on liberty, all of which are interrelated: (1) the welfare state, which includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, subsidies, education grants, and all other coercive transfer programs; (2) the warfare state or national-security state, which consists of the vastly enormous and permanent military establishment, the CIA, and the CIA, along with their philosophy of foreign interventionism, foreign empire, and regime change; (3) the drug war, which continues to decimate people and destroy freedom all over the world; (4) the managed and regulated economy, by which government officials interfere with the natural workings of the market process; (5) the income and the IRS, which ...
Whatever you might think about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, he deserves some credit: At least he has raised questions about the U.S. foreign policy of perpetual war and foreign interventionism, which has thrown GOP conservatives, the neo-cons, and the Washington, D.C., establishment—including, no doubt, the CIA and the entire military-industrial complex -- into an absolute tizzy.
After all, to question the philosophy of foreign interventionism is akin to heresy. It’s like a Christian saying that Jesus was a great man but not God.
And Heaven help the person who speaks such heresy. The war party, both Democrats and Republicans, will come down on him with massive political fire and brimstone. That’s what they’re now doing to Trump for daring to speak publicly about what is not supposed to be spoken.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that Trump is a libertarian when it comes to foreign policy. Like his fellow candidates in both parties, he most definitely is an ...
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In 1954 The Foundation for Economic Education published a book entitled Government: An Ideal Concept, by its founder and president, Leonard E. Read. In the book, which was critical of the anarchy paradigm, Read pointed out that the only force that a government can legitimately exercise is defensive force, which necessarily encompasses the three functions of government that I set forth in part 1 of this essay: (1) to punish people who initiate force against others, such as murderers, robbers, rapists, thieves, burglars, and the like; (2) to provide a judiciary for people to resolve disputes; and (3) to defend the nation in the event of a foreign invasion.
As I explained in part 1, these three functions do not violate the libertarian nonaggression principle, the principle that holds that people should be free to live their ...
