Do you own your body?
If there is one thing that the smelliest, most down-and-out, most destitute, most forsaken homeless guy who sleeps under a …
All Articles by Laurence Vance
Christianity, Libertarianism, and the Drug War
This talk was given on August 8, 2015 as a keynote address at the Christians for Liberty Conference in Austin, …
Why Do Libertarians Pay Taxes?
It never fails. Every time I write anything about taxes I get long, rambling e-mails from tax trolls who scour …
Real Dissent – A truly radical libertarian book
Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (CreateSpace Independent …
The Flat Tax Revisited
Every four years, during the presidential election season, Republican candidates criticize the abuses of the IRS and the complexity of …
Who denigrates marriage? Maybe you and I do.
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians are not going to like what I am going to say. And neither are most …
Ye Shall Be As Gods
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And …
Why Don’t Conservatives Follow Their Own Constitution?
The relationship between conservatives and libertarians is sometimes a confrontational one. A reader recently forwarded to me a response …
Are you really for liberty? The Drug War Litmus Test.
Conservative Republicans are sometimes said by the media to be “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning.” This is especially true if they say …
Joseph Judson Taylor, Man of Peace
Since the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, two words that have rarely been seen together are “Baptist” and “pacifist.” We have instead been subject to things like high-profile Baptist leader Jerry Falwell writing a defense of the Iraq war titled “God Is Pro-War” …
Sniper Theology
There came out of the woodwork after George W. Bush’s immoral, unjust, and unnecessary invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq …
The Libertarian Analysis of Obama’s Tax Proposals
For those of you who did not watch President Obama’s State of the Union address, you can read a transcript …
Ending the War on Drugs
Review of Dean Becker, To End the War on Drugs: A Guide for Politicians, the Press, and the Public (DTN …
The Defective Faith-Based Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson
George W. Bush was not the first president to have a “faith-based” foreign policy. Most people know that Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the U.S. president from 1913 to 1921. Some perhaps know that he was the governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. But few probably know that he was the son of a Presbyterian minister, president of Princeton University—then a Presbyterian institution that had always been headed by clergymen until Wilson—from 1902 to 1910, and had a faith-based policy of his own.
But like the faith-based foreign policy of Bush, Wilson’s was shaped by a defective faith.
25 Reasons I Could Never Be Elected
Today, being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day. Aside from the fact that I don’t …
The Heroic Anti-War Baptist Preacher Robert Hall
English Baptist minister Robert Hall (1764-1831) was the namesake and youngest child of fourteen born to a Baptist minister. One …
Militarism in American Churches
Since the United States launched the unnecessary, immoral, unjust, and senseless war in Iraq in 2003, the Christian blasphemy occurring …
The Great and (Un)Holy War
One would think that if there is any group of people that would be opposed to war it would be Christians. After all, they claim to worship the Prince of Peace. But such is not the case now, and such was not the case 100 years ago during the Great War that we now call World War I.
Legalize Heroin–It’s the Christian thing to do
There, I said it: legalize heroin. For those in a state of shock, let me say it again: legalize heroin. And for those conservative Christians who want to use the power of the state to stamp out sin and vice, let me say it again: legalize heroin.
The Libertarian Case Against Public Schools
Conservatives and libertarians have a precarious relationship. On the surface, they appear to agree on some issues, but once you …
Nuclear Christians
In a recent article of mine about Christians apologists for the state, its military, and its wars, I mentioned, for …
Shall we abandon the non-aggression principle?
It has been fashionable of late for some libertarians to broaden the libertarian non-aggression principle in their attempts to make …
Drug Warriors Are Harmful: Debunking 7 Myths of Their Own Creation
My unusual title is because I am replying to an article posted at the Heritage Foundation’s blog, The Foundry, titled: …
Militarism and Easter
On this Good Friday, Christians are focused on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for the sins of …
The Antidote to Military Exceptionalism
This talk was given at the Authors Forum at the 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. I …