Libertarianism

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Joni Mitchell's Best Songs Teach About Socialism

Fantasy Inland: What Joni Mitchell’s Best Songs Teach About Socialism

Libertarianism

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” – Joni Mitchell. Everyone at the Kennedy Center honored one of the greatest of ...

How Should We React to an Attack on U.S. Soil?

Libertarianism

How Should We React to an Attack on U.S. Soil? If the U.S. were to be attacked again in the manner of Pearl Harbor or 9/11 what would be the ...

John Locke is not a Libertarian, Minarchism Revisited

Libertarianism

When I first began writing about libertarianism back in 2018, my previous comments about minarchism elicited some comments from some of my libertarian friends. I’m going to begin this post ...

Living Free: Living with Integrity

Libertarianism

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,     but an accurate weight is his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace;     but wisdom is with the humble. The integrity ...

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Limited Government: The Self-Defeating Nature of Minarchy

Libertarianism

In this post I discuss the self-defeating nature of limited government, known as minarchy. I’m going to foreground here my own non-libertarian conclusion about minarchism: while I find minarchism more ...

Ep 257: Entertaining Children with Solid Values, with Daniel Harmon

Libertarianism

In today’s episode we talk to advertising guru and creator of the Tuttle Twins television show, Daniel Harmon. Daniel is one of the founders of the Harmon Brothers ad agency, which has been the brains behind ...

Constitutional Restraints on Power

Libertarianism

American political institutions presuppose certain convictions about human nature, the worth and prerogatives of persons, the meaning of life, the distinction between right and wrong, and the destiny of the ...

Ep 255: Tough Questions from a Paleo-Libertarian

Libertarianism

Doug Stuart and Dr. Norman Horn joined Buck Johnson on his Counterflow Podcast to talk about Faith Seeking Freedom and field some tough, interesting questions from Buck. If you didn’t already catch ...

swords into plowshares

Swords into Plowshares: What WWI and Nagasaki Should Remind Us About Christmas

Libertarianism

Comparing Nagasaki to the Christmas Truce of WWI When the Jewish prophet Isaiah wrote of the coming Messiah, he presented a figure who would cause the nations to “hammer their ...

Libertarianism 2: Understanding the Non-Aggression Principle

Libertarianism

For this week’s blog post I’m going to offer up a working definition of a key term that is critical to understanding libertarianism. At its heart, libertarianism is a moral ...

Of Pilgrims and Communism

Christian Worldview

As people in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we rightly express gratitude for the divine providence that sustains all of us. The iconography of this American holiday is ...

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Romans 13: A Reformed View of Stateless Civil Governance

Libertarianism

The Reformed theological tradition historically holds to an interpretation of Romans 13 that, in its basic outline, is compatible with libertarian anarchism, or ‘stateless civil governance.’ Not all libertarian Christians are ...

On Fluffy Animals, Armed Bandits, and the Inner Logic of Libertarianism

Libertarianism

What is libertarianism? In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick famously defines libertarianism as a social philosophy committed to a simple maxim: “from each as he chooses to each ...

Ep 244: Christian Misconceptions of Libertarianism

Libertarianism

Join the co-authors of Faith Seeking Freedom to get a “behind the scenes” look at the the book’s creation and the content of Chapter 13: Christian Misconceptions of Libertarianism. Norman ...

The Halo Effect: Why People Trust the State

Culture

This is a guest post by Caleb Furlough. He received his PhD from North Carolina State University in Human Factors & Applied Cognition and currently holds a position as a ...

Libertarianism Changes the Abortion Debate

Libertarianism Changes the Abortion Debate

Christian Ethics

Americans haven’t changed much in their approach to abortion over the past fifty years. Since Roe v Wade, conventional arguments on both sides have traversed various fields of philosophy. At ...

Ep 242: A Conversation with Jimmy Song

Appearances

Jimmy Song recently welcomed Doug Stuart onto his podcast, Bitcoin Fixes This, for a wide-ranging conversation. Today, we are sharing that conversation with you. Show Notes Make sure to check ...

Ep 241: What About the Environment and Creation?

Libertarianism

Join the co-authors of Faith Seeking Freedom to get a “behind the scenes” look at the the book’s creation and the content of Chapter 12: What About the Environment and Creation? Dick ...

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 as an Ancient Limitation on Political Authority

Libertarianism

Deuteronomy is a puzzling book. It’s a marvelous ‘farewell sermon’ by Moses before Joshua takes up command, but the literary history challenges any historian or scholar who ventures to ask ...

Libertarian Answers to Conservative and Liberal Questions

Libertarianism

Echoing George Wallace, it has been said many times that there is not a dime’s worth of difference between liberals and conservatives. This is even usually true when the focus ...

Should discrimination laws even exist?

Libertarianism

Lawmakers in the House and Senate in my state of Florida have proposed two bills (HB 717 & SB 774) that would amend the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) to ...

Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another

10 Reasons Christianity and Libertarianism are Compatible

Libertarianism

Last week at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C., Elise Amyx of the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics (TIFWE) organized a panel on libertarianism and Christianity. ...

Christians should have a welcoming posture toward immigrants

Is there a Christian Immigration Policy?

Christian Worldview

Prompted by the distasteful, immoral, and un-American advice of Vice President Kamala Harris toward would-be immigrants, I was inspired to write an op-ed recently for Real Clear Religion about Christian ...

The Person and His Society

Christian Worldview

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the January 1981 edition of The Freeman. He is the author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. ...

Protection, Defense, Retaliation, and Self-Ownership

History

This is a guest post written by Todd Lewis, who graduated from Malone University with a degree in history and philosophy. He has extensive knowledge of history, theology, philosophy, and ...

Self-Ownership in Traditional Judaism

History

This guest post was written by Alan Krinsky. In the fifth chapter of the second book of his Two Treatises of Government, the British philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) declared simply ...

Justice, Power, and Boundaries

Culture

“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” Lev. 19:15 It doesn’t take much time to notice that ...

Ep 220: Is Capitalism Problematic?

Libertarianism

Join the co-authors of Faith Seeking Freedom to get a “behind the scenes” look at the the book’s creation and the content of Chapter 5: Is Capitalism Problematic? Kerry Baldwin ...

Ep 217: Does a Free Society Have Limits?

Libertarianism

Join the co-authors of Faith Seeking Freedom to get a “behind the scenes” look at the the book’s creation and the content of Chapter 4: Does A Free Society Have ...

The Libertarian Aquinas

Libertarianism

Jonathan McIntosh (Ph.D., University of Dallas) is a Fellow of Humanities at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, where he teaches on the history of western political and economic ...

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