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Weekend Insights – Perils of Power

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

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 256: America’s Revolutionary Mind, with C. Bradley Thompson

American History

In this week’s episode Doug Stuart talks with Dr. C. Bradley Thompson; a professor at the University of Clemson, and author of America’s Revolutionary Mind, which happens to be the topic ...

Good News, Bad News Jan 5, 2022: Our Best and Worst of 2021

Media

As we exit the dumpster fire that was 2021, we look hopefully to 2022. Still, it wasn’t all bad, was it? The Good News Bad News crew talk about the ...

BONUS: What Good is the Constitution? with Tom Woods (re-mastered)

American History

In this episode, LCI is joined by the liberty movement’s favorite podcaster — historian and entrepreneur Tom Woods — as we dive into constitutional history and try to answer the ...

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German War Guilt for WWI is Misplaced; A Historian Explains How France was Responsible

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 ...

Weekend Insights – Elon Musk Isn’t Perverted Enough for CNN

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

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 ...

Good News, Bad News Dec 22, 2021: Merry Christmas! Vaccine Mandates Coming to a City Near You!

Media

Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Christian Institute, where we give you positive greetings in contrast to the Biden Administration’s ominous and troubling Christmas message of illness and death. In this ...

Christmas in an Anti-Christian Age

Culture

This article was written by Pat Buchanan, and was originally published at LewRockwell.com on December 26, 2012. For two millennia, the birth of Christ has been seen as the greatest ...

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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 ...

Ep 254: Thriving with Stone-Age Minds, with Justin Barrett

Podcast

Whether or not Christians give credence to evolutionary biology, cognitive scientist Justin Barrett – founder/president of Blueprint 1543 and co-author of Thriving with Stone Age Minds – believes that the ...

Weekend Insights – Build Back Later?

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Religious Roots of Liberty

History

This article by Rev. Edmund Opitz (who wrote The Libertarian Theology of Freedom) is reprinted from the Mises Daily Article Archive, August 26, 2009. It was originally published as “Religious ...

Ep 253: Libertarian Political Strategies, with Jacob Daniel Winograd

Podcast

Today Jacob Daniel Winograd joins Doug to talk about the various approaches to politics within the libertarian movement, in particular the strategy of the Mises Caucus and why its emphases ...

Weekend Insights – Raise the debt ceiling!

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Good News, Bad News Dec 10, 2021: Will SCOTUS Overturn Roe, and Will Biden Stop Causing Inflation?

Media

Conservatives have been eager to overturn Roe v. Wade for decades, but is this even likely to happen? And what about inflation? Is the Biden administration the source of the ...

Ep 252: Media Deception and Conspiracy Theories, with Jason Rink

Podcast

How you respond when you know the mainstream media is selling you lies and deception? What is the appropriate amount of skepticism and rejection of the narrative for a libertarian ...

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 ...

Weekend Insights – Of variants, and hyperbitcoinization

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Discussion of Christian Charity

Christian Ethics

On April 10, 2009, I posted an article called Caesar’s Benevolence in the 10 Things I Hate About Taxes series. I criticized the supposed “charity” that the government “provides” through ...

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Book Review: You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble

Book Reviews

Book Review: You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble Dr. Alan Noble is an associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. According to his bio, he gives talks ...

Ep 251: An Anti-State Christmas

Podcast

Kick off the Christmas season with a cheerful short book by Tom Mullen, author of An Anti-State Christmas. Not only will you learn why Tom Mullen believes Jesus was the ...

Weekend Insights – Pardoning Turkeys, Imprisoning Humans

News

Welcome back to Weekend Insights, your LCI "President's Corner" of miscellaneous articles, events, books, vids, and whatever else I'm thinking about...

Good News, Bad News Nov 24, 2021: Rittenhouse Acquitted, Supply Chain Woes, Bitcoin in El Salvador

Media

In this episode of the LCI Rountable, we discuss the Rittenhouse verdict and some of the fallout from it. We also discuss the tragedy Waukesha, WI where 6 people have ...

Free Market Law

Economics

I want to direct your weekend reading to three excellent passages from my good friend Daniel Krawisz. Part 1: Free Market Law Libertarians sometimes try to derive solutions from the ...

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 ...

Ep 250: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, with Vijay Boyapati

Podcast

Crypto-currency expert Vijay Boyapati, who left his job with Google to support the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign, joins Dr. Norman Horn to discuss his excellent new book, The Bullish Case ...

On Rand and Altruism: A Defense of Christian Self-Interest

Christian Ethics

Ayn Rand, the founder and sole source of the philosophy called Objectivism, taught an ethical system based on the principle of “rational self-interest” - defined as aiming at the fulfillment ...

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