Category: Libertarianism

Economics

The War on Poverty Revisited

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the February 1986 edition of The Freeman. —- Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the ...

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Culture

Why Are So Many Protestants Capitalists But Not Libertarians?

Protestant Christians (with the exception of some “emerging church” types) overwhelmingly support free-markets and fiscal prudence on the part of ...

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Libertarianism

Against Net Neutrality

December 21, 2010, the FCC voted 3-2 for new measures regulating how content is transferred over the internet. Stephan Kinsella’s ...

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Christian Ethics

Lessons in Liberty: Christian Libertarianism

Blayne Bennett from Students for Liberty asked me to write a short article describing what it means to be a ...

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Libertarianism

Meet Doug Douma

Norman’s Note: Today I’d like to introduce you to the next writer to join the LCC team, Doug Douma! I ...

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Libertarianism

Classical Liberalism and Religion

Originally by Edmund Opitz in the November 1985 issue of The Freeman. Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of ...

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Libertarianism

Libertarians mourn death of David Nolan

The following comes directly from the Libertarian Party. I had the great honor of meeting David in the past year ...

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Libertarianism

An Open Letter to American Churches for Peace

To Churches across America, grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ: Without fail, churches all throughout America ...

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Libertarianism

How to Write a Letter to the Editor

Despite the clear fact that printed newspapers are on the decline, opportunities to respond to journalists via letters to the ...

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Christian Worldview

What makes a Christian libertarian different?

Scott and Kelly each submitted questions via the new FAQ page that are worth pointing out to everyone. Why not ...

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Libertarianism

Who Owns You?

This article is #21 – and the final article – of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, ...

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Libertarianism

Great Libertarian Quotes in Heinlein

Yesterday on LewRockwell.com, Jeff Riggenbach posted a short essay entitled Was Robert A. Heinlein a Libertarian? It reminded me of ...

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Libertarianism

Tax Slavery Sucks

This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Stop Statism

Statists are anti-progress. Statists claim their policies are for the common good. For some this claim is just a front ...

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Libertarianism

Stop Rent-seeking

This article is #17 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Is Catholicism anti-Libertarian?

My good friend Daniel Coleman, who is Catholic and a libertarian, had an interesting email exchange with Dr. Tom Woods ...

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Libertarianism

Social Slavery

The current Social Security (aka “socialist insecurity”) system is designed as a pay-as-you-go system, in which current workers’ tax dollars ...

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Libertarianism

Smoking is Healthier than Fascism

This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Don’t Tread on Me

The message “Don’t Tread” communicates in two words what the entire political philosophy of classical liberalism is about: desiring to ...

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Events

Mises Circle Houston Recap

I've been reticent to post a recap of Mises Circle Houston because I didn't have any photos of the event ...

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Economics

Why being a candidate can be beneficial for liberty

Though I think it is misguided to believe that electoral politics is the primary means of effecting change for the ...

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Libertarianism

How Libertarian Are You?

My friend Wes at The Humble Libertarian put together a neat list of quizzes that you can take on the ...

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Culture

Liberalism Used to Mean Freedom

Life is not a mere game. Living is a lot more complex than any sport, but life and games are ...

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Economics

Intellectual Property and Libertarianism

Stephan Kinsella’s presentation at Mises University this past July is an excellent introduction to intellectual property, and to rights theory ...

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Libertarianism

How To Connect With Other Christian Libertarians

Being a libertarian can be a little lonely sometimes, because although our numbers are growing we aren't quite *that* big ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: Epilogue

No, this is not #11, it really is just an epilogue – or an afterthought… I hope you attended or ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: The Full Series

Ah taxation, how we despise thee. You make some richer, but most poorer. You daily remind us that we live ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #10: Lost Prosperity

This is the tenth article in a series on taxation leading up to Tax Day, April 15. I think I’ve ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #9: Taxation is Theft

I have already said and illustrated this numerous times in previous articles, but I will say it once again: Taxation ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #8: Living in Fear

To say that the tax code is complicated would be the understatement of the century. It is, in fact, far ...

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