Critics of libertarianism often charge that it is a “selfish ideology,” or that any explanation of self-interest is just a warmed-over excuse for selfish behavior. While it is indeed possible ...
Legendary foreign correspondent Robert Fisk gave an informed account from the ground on the Syrian (likely non-) gas attack. You can read his account via the UK Independent here. It is ...
This opinion piece was written by Judge Andrew Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey and senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Last weekend, President ...
In his book The Patient Ferment of the Early Church, Alan Kreider discusses how the early Christians lived in tension between the indigenizing principle and the pilgrim principle—between being at home ...
Although about thirty countries have the death penalty for drug trafficking, only in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam are drug offenders routinely executed. Yet, the worst ...
Donald Trump has become the first sitting United States President to meet with a North Korean Leader. Depending on who you read, the summit was a distraction, offensive, nearly miraculous, ...
Because they can vote for Tweedledum or Tweedledee, the red team or the blue team, or the welfare statist or the warfare statist, Americans think they live in a free ...
May 5 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. Although Republicans have universally used the occasion to point out Marx’s bloody legacy, they have failed to realize ...
When Jesus visited his disciples after his execution, they were terrified. They expected him to bring the standard justice of the ancient world: vengeance. Instead, Jesus said, “Shalom.” This greeting ...
This week, the Political Correctness religion mass hallucinated that Trump called illegal immigrants animals because many of its members feel that way and deeply want to atone for it. Media ...
By Albert Jay Nock. Originally published in Atlantic Monthly, October 1936. I often think it’s comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That’s born into ...
“You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him.” – Kanye West Forget petty politics for a moment. Kanye West’s recent statement on ...
Boundaries are one of the most fundamental principles for libertarians. They are essential for delineating personal property and bodily autonomy. These boundaries are not just physical; being able to distinguish ...
Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For some, this is the worn-out debate between a view supporting ...
The centuries immediately before and after the 100s CE in the Greco-Roman world were increasingly violent. There were frequent uprisings, attempted coups, assassinations of political leaders, reform efforts and massacres ...
Is testing all potential and current employees for drug use a dumb idea? I think so. But your moral—and in some cases legal—right to have drugs flowing in your veins ...
One of the most popular techniques of unifying a large group of people is through nationalist slogans, slurs, and emblems. And one of the most popular slogans or sayings of ...
As night follows day, so cries for more gun control follow another deadly shooting. But once again, it is not just Democrats, liberals, progressives howling for more or stricter gun-control ...
It is often suggested that governments exist to fight poverty, deal with crime, and deter foreign enemies. So holy is this dogma that to question it is perceived as utterly ...
Whenever there’s a school shooting, the answer from the political left is always the same: take the guns away from citizens and give them all to Donald Trump. It’s a ...
If you wanted to become the most powerful person in the world, how would you do it? Work harder than everyone else? Suck up to other powerful people and ...
People generally don’t want war. In fact, the natural resistance of human beings to kill one other is so strong that even when being paid and forced at gunpoint ...
It is often suggested that governments have police and armies primarily to protect the people. And, while there might be some motive of self-preservation involved, as a whole, the government ...
One of the most popular myths in any society is that wars are necessary and meaningful. It is assumed that wars are “for a good cause,” for “protection of the ...
Christianity is Making a “Social Turn” Christian thought and practice is making a turn toward a qualitatively social faith. That is, the good news of Jesus Christ is widely recognized ...
“Have you voted today?” I remember uttering these words when calling up random, local people on the phone hours before the end of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. Somehow I ...
Exodus 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of Israel are too many ...
Being born into a nation-state, all of us are trained to equate “illegal” with “bad,” and “legal” with “OK.” And because many times there is, in fact, a direct correspondence ...
Why am I not worried that some group of people or the entire world are ‘moving towards socialism’? Because I have eyes. Everywhere I look – every state, country, city, ...
Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For some, this is the worn-out debate between a view supporting ...
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