Renewing the True Patriot Dream
Texas House Representative David Simpson delivered the following speech on October 8, 2014 at a Students For Liberty Event in …
Category: History
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.
Nuclear Christians
In a recent article of mine about Christians apologists for the state, its military, and its wars, I mentioned, for …
Slavery in the Bible
This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister …
The Old Cause
This guest post is by C.Jay Engel of The Reformed Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. …
Invading Iraq was wrong, and it’s wrong to do it again
This guest post is by Jeremy Mack of The Evangelical Libertarian. For guest post opportunities, please see the Contact page. …
WATCH: Saving the Children and the Story of Nicholas Winton
I was first told the story of Sir Nicholas Winton a few years ago by Lawrence Reed of the Foundation …
Hope for the Dead, Hope for the Living
Two articles came to my attention today that are well worth reading. The first comes from Judge Andrew Napolitano as …
War, Empire, and the Military
Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy …
Habeas Corpus in America
Review of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King’s Prerogative to the War on Terror by Anthony …
The Taste of War
Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (The Penguin Press, 2012), …
Rosa Parks Revisited
Republicans are paying more attention to what they tweet after their latest attempt to pander to blacks to try and …
Erasmus on the Just War
“The most just of wars brings with it a train of evils—if indeed any war can really be called just.” …
Erasmus on Soldiers
“Who could possibly tell how many hardships these idiots of soldiers put up with in their camps? And they deserve …
Erasmus on Christianity and War: Christian War Fever
“I simply admit that I have written some rather distasteful things for the purpose of frightening Christians away from the …
Erasmus on the Evils of War
“Since we see that there is hardly ever any respite from wars, which normally arise from the ambition or anger …
An Injury to Civilization
Review of Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began (Walker & Co., 2012), …
Being a Constitutionalist is Not Enough
Being a constitutionalist is not enough; being a libertarian is.
Sow It Everywhere
Review of Martin A. Lee, Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific (Scribner, 2012), vii + 519 …
The Significance of the Austrian School and Ludwig von Mises
This is the first essay in LibertarianChristians.com series “Essentials of Austrian Economics.” Throughout this series, we will explore important economic …
From God or the Sword
This article is by libertarian luminary Frank Chodorov, excerpted from chapter two of The Rise and Fall of Society. Is …
Copperhead: Ron Maxwell at his finest
This review was featured on LewRockwell.com on July 11, 2013. Finding a movie about war with no actual battle scenes …
Adultery and the State–Moral Courage or Moral Busybodies?
The legislature of the state of Colorado recently passed, and the governor signed into law, a bill to repeal an …
Our Disordered Lives
By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay …
Alexander Campbell, Tolbert Fanning, David Lipscomb: A Nineteenth-Century Anti-War Triumvirate
A shorter version of this essay was presented at the 2013 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute. Alexander …
The Politics of the Millennium
Murray Rothbard wrote the following article for Liberty Magazine in 1990. It provides an interesting summary and perspective on the …
Our Disordered Lives
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
Douglas Wilson tells Idaho to embrace Nullification
Via Tom Woods, we find Pastor Douglas Wilson giving a sermon to the Idaho governor and legislature on nullification! He …
No More Entangling Alliances
Would the United States go to war over marine life illegally harvested in the South China Sea? The very thought …
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally …