Libertarianism

What’s in a name? A question of LCC’s labeling.

Christian Ethics

LCC reader Will asks via email: Is there a difference between Christian Libertarians and Libertarian Christians? I am more inclined to state my theology first and my philosophy second, but ...

Crypto-Anarchy and Libertarian Entrepreneurship

Libertarianism

One of my great friends is Daniel Krawisz, who I first met at the University of Texas with Libertarian Longhorns. We were both graduate students, libertarian thinkers, and board gamers, ...

Legalize Heroin–It’s the Christian thing to do

Culture

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 ...

Stuck in the Middle

Events

Talking to Christians about libertarianism can be challenging at times. Doug Stuart says we often feel "stuck in the middle" between liberal and conservative Christians. In this presentation, Doug discusses ...

American Idol: How the State Attempts to Replace God

Christian Worldview

The Christians for Liberty 2014 Conference has come and gone, but now we get to post the videos from the conference for everyone to see. Is statism a form of ...

Reading Suggestions for a Progressive Friend

Economics

I tend to find myself in the minority among friends with the viewpoints I hold as a libertarian and a Christian. I can frustrate my conservative and progressive friends at ...

The Cult of Statism

American History

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

Shall we abandon the non-aggression principle?

Libertarianism

It has been fashionable of late for some libertarians to broaden the libertarian non-aggression principle in their attempts to make libertarianism less thin and brutal and more cosmopolitan and humanitarian. ...

Can Ayn Rand and Christianity hold a civil conversation? A review of “The Soul of Atlas”

Book Reviews

Book review of The Soul of Atlas by Mark Henderson. 2013 Reason Publishing, 246 pages. http://soulofatlas.com Although libertarians have been known to say that it usually begins with Ayn Rand, ...

Codependency, Christian Love, and Liberty

Christian Worldview

This guest post is by Rev. Donald Ehrke. He is a Libertarian, a former GOP campaign manager, and ordained minister living in Alexandria, Virginia. Many thanks to Donald for his ...

The Libertarian Position on Hobby Lobby

Culture

In September 2012, the privately held retail store Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit against the US federal government regarding new regulations in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requiring that employer ...

Hard Questions on the Drug War

Libertarianism

As I have maintained in all of my articles on the drug war, the war on drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. The ...

The System Built on Greed

Economics

Guest post by C. Jay Engel of the Reformed Libertarian. The anti-free market proclamations from the left (and even sometimes the right) come in all shapes and sizes.  Among the ...

War, Empire, and the Military

History

Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy (Vance Publications, 2014), 528 pgs. These essays, although organized under ...

You Can’t Have a War Without Soldiers

Libertarianism

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire Critics of the wars in Iraq ...

The Cult of the Uniform

Libertarianism

There are a number of distinctly American symbols that evoke feelings of pride, nationalism, and patriotism. There is the Constitution. There are monuments like Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial, the ...

Looking Forward by Looking Backward (My Personal 2013 Recap)

Book Reviews

Adult maturity is partly evidenced by how well we allow our past to influence our vision and hope for the future. No matter how bleak our past experiences might be, ...

Workplace Discrimination and a Free Society

Culture

Lately, it seems as though everyone thinks he is being discriminated against in the workplace. According to a national survey of employed American adults who were asked about their experiences ...

A Response to Stoker

Christian Ethics

This article was jointly written by Doug Stuart and Jessica Hooker. “…libertarianism is a values system of its own, and it’s an alternative, not a complement, to the values system ...

Are Christian Libertarians also Pacifists?

Christian Worldview

I have been called many things since I began writing in 2003 about the immoral, unjust invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the menacing warfare state, the U.S. evil empire of ...

Pulling Down Strongholds

Christian Ethics

I have a confession to make. I have been accused of writing with an agenda. I hereby plead guilty. For those who are new to LewRockwell.com or to my writings ...

Let’s Throw Out “Capitalism”?

Economics

It’s probably no stretch for me to say that I share a common frustration with other libertarians when I hear capitalism take the blame for all of the world’s economic ...

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If I were a pastor

American History

I am not a pastor. I am not a minister. I am not a preacher. I am not a priest. I am not an evangelist. I am not an elder. ...

How Conservative is Your Senator?

Libertarianism

One of the main tenets of conservatism is supposed to be fidelity to the Constitution. Let’s see how Republicans in the U.S. Senate who tout their conservatism at every election ...

Can Conservatives Be Libertarians?

Libertarianism

Some libertarians are applauding the recent Supreme Court decisions relating to same-sex marriage, not because of anything to do with the Constitution, limited government, federalism, individual liberty, the proper role ...

From God or the Sword

Economics

This article is by libertarian luminary Frank Chodorov, excerpted from chapter two of The Rise and Fall of Society. Is the State ordered in the nature of things? The classical ...

Does Libertarianism Diminish Freedom?

Libertarianism

Hillsdale College in Michigan hosts Mises Lectures in free-market economics and houses the library of Mises in the Ludwig von Mises Room in its Mossey Library. But being a neocon ...

Sacred Music is for Everyone

Libertarianism

Jeffrey Tucker, head of Laissez Faire Books, has been quite active in the Catholic music tradition for some time. In June, Tucker will be presenting a paper at the Sacra ...

Thoughts on Censorship

Libertarianism

By Rev. Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the June 1966 issue of The ...

Decriminalization, Legalization, or Freedom?

Culture

In between drug prohibition and drug freedom are two concepts that are often confused. Drug prohibition is the criminalization of the production, distribution, and possession of drugs as currently exists ...

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