Edmund Opitz

Rev. Edmund Opitz (1914-2006) not only acted as an early leader in the organization of American libertarian thought, he also fervently and faithfully served the Kingdom of God throughout his life. With his extensive knowledge of American political history, theology, scripture, and the market economy – as well as the Austrian School of economics – enabled Rev. Opitz to serve as an excellent example and resource for Christian libertarianism. Though Rev. Edmund Opitz has sadly passed on, we cannot ignore his integral contributions to libertarianism; thus LCC wanted a designated author for our collection of his works.

To Save the World

Economics

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the April 1984 edition of The Freeman. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, in a modern translation, “the mess we are in.” A ...

Classical Liberalism and Religion

Libertarianism

Originally by Edmund Opitz in the November 1985 issue of The Freeman. Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of the political State, its nature and proper functions. We may ...

Defending Freedom and the Free Society

History

Originally by Edmund Opitz, published in the January 1993 edition of The Freeman. —- Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and ...

Biblical Roots of American Liberty

Theology

Originally by Edmund Opitz in the July 1991 (41) edition of The Freeman. —- The First Amendment to the Constitution forbids Congress to set up an official church; there was ...

Economics Has the Answer: What’s the Question?

Economics

By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and thus in other sectors of his life as well. Smith’s ...

Churches and the Social Order

Christian Ethics

By Edmund Opitz. The church plays an important role in human life. It was once the unwritten rule in polite society that two topics have no place in civilized conversation; ...

Defending Freedom and the Free Society

History

By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped for the day when their children would be free. Gradually ...

Ethics and Business

Economics

Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was a businessman? The show that portrayed this businessman as a ...

Albert Jay Nock: Apostle to The Remnant

Culture

Both of these essays on Albert Jay Nock were authored by Edmund Opitz, founder of the Nockian Society and the Remnant. Since they are of similar point and brief, they ...

Freedom and Majority Rule

Economics

By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World War I. A banquet in his honor was held in ...

Black Magic

Economics

By Edmund Opitz Every individual tries to economize his energies by satisfying his needs and desires with a minimum of effort—within the limits of his ethical code. The urge to ...

Perspectives on Religion and Capitalism

Christian Ethics

By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of this is natural, due to limited knowledge; much of it ...

Architects of Leviathan

Politics

By Edmund Opitz Opitz delivered this paper in October 1973 before Hillsdale College students and faculty during “Political Morality: From Socrates to Nixon,” the first seminar of the Center for ...

The Nobility of the Bourgeoisie

Economics

By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business sector of our society we’d direct him first of all ...

Liberalism Used to Mean Freedom

Culture

Life is not a mere game. Living is a lot more complex than any sport, but life and games are analogous in at least one respect: Neither is possible without ...

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