How does the government actually “work?” In conversations about economics or politics, it is only a matter of time before this issue comes up. I’m not referring to the typical ...
*Today’s guest post comes from Dr. Alex Tokarev of Northwood University. As an economist at Northwood University, I teach the history and philosophy of various economic systems. In fact, humanity ...
I recently saw a video by a libertarian commentator named TJ Brown, also known as That Guy T, on YouTube making a tongue-in-cheek thought experiment that the liberty movement would ...
Human desire is a magnetic force. Whenever a person desires something, the desire takes hold of their whole being. Another person sees that person’s desire for an object as a ...
Most politically-aware Christians are probably at least somewhat-familiar with the recent controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention surrounding Russell Moore, who is presently head of the public policy arm of ...
“Without violence, nothing is ever accomplished in history.” – Karl Marx “But I tell you not to violently resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, ...
The following is an excerpt from Jason Hughey’s chapter in the new book, Called to Freedom. (edited for format) With a new understanding of Romans 13, First Peter 2, and ...
It’s a big day for LCI. Coinciding with our attendance at the 2017 International Students for Liberty Conference, today we launch the inaugural episode of The Libertarian Christian Podcast! A ...
What happens to individuals after issues are won and lost in the political arena? For instance: when immigration bans are enacted, then put on hold, and then finally settled (Supreme ...
Author and friend of LCI, David Gornoski, recently interviewed Ron Paul on the subject of Christian nonviolence. It’s always great to hear Dr. Paul talk about political philosophy, but what ...
The American Left – which never had a sterling record to begin with – is rapidly deteriorating. In one sense it may seem surprising how expediently the Left has turned ...
Exorcising Collectivism out of Personhood (or, The Exorcism of Collectivism) Have you ever found yourself living out an expected role scripted by those around you? Whether it’s a family member, ...
Religious superstition characterized the Greco-Roman culture of the first-century. Here is but one snapshot of home life: In addition to statuary and household altars (which were fixed architectural features by ...
Reuters is reporting on supposed ‘anarchist groups’ planning to interfere with Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20th. This falls in line with the popularly-accepted (and completely wrong) definition of ...
Why is it that followers of the Prince of Peace are so often the quickest to beat the drums of war? And why do so many think that “love your ...
“Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘ELI, ELI, LAMA ...
2016 will go down in the history books as a watershed year for world politics. Between the stunning Brexit vote that rocked the globalist cabal, the rising national populist movements ...
Our culture is engaged in a cinematic Mexican standoff, but the weapons we point at each other are real only as long as we believe they are. If we broke ...
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God. Go to any western liberal arts university class and you’ll hear the choir ...
Theologian Preston Sprinkle wrote a short blog the other day about why he stopped saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Like Sprinkle relates in his own account, it’s probably fair to ...
A friend recently sent me a video to the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland that took place on June 1, 2016. The world’s largest tunnel, it took 17 years ...
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.” – Vince Lombardi Many of life’s lessons can be ...
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 ...
Joel Poindexter writes: The Great Commission, as described in the gospel of Matthew, has been perverted by these Right-Wing warmongers. It’s gone from a mission to “go and make disciples ...
Please remove me from your mailing list, “I’m just totally uninterested in your view of politics,” wrote a former student and friend. I have been described (and dismissed) by some ...
God created a remarkable world, a world where if you follow good ethics and work hard then the results are win-win for everyone. Whereas aggression always involves pillaging one person ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the May 1979 issue of The Freeman. Man ...
It is bad enough that Republican warmongers like Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Allan West are whining about the supposed cuts to the defense budget that are due ...
I wrote my post about why I don’t watch the news some time ago. Now I see Bryan Caplan over at EconLog has posted about why he doesn’t believe news ...
Neil Postman's well-known book Amusing Ourselves to Death gives us a chilling reminder of how much the media we use on a regular basis affect our thought patterns. In particular, ...
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