economic intervention

A $15 Minimum Wage Would Hurt Those it’s Meant to Help

Economics

This article was originally published on CNN Business on February 9, 2021. The full text can be found here. This is the sixth of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why ...

Where did all the Poor People Go?

Culture

This is the third of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails to Lift the Poor.” This guest post is by Nathan Mayo, and ...

Wait Till It’s Free

Economics

  Last Friday evening, the Christians for Liberty Austin Chapter met to watch Wait Till It’s Free, a documentary produced by Colin Gunn of Indoctrination and Captivated. Running with the ...

The Taste of War

Book Reviews

Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (The Penguin Press, 2012), xxii + 634 pgs.. I was intrigued by this statement ...

The War on Poverty: A Critical View

Economics

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was originally published in the August 1968 issue of The Freeman. ...

Moral Busybodies

Economics

This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d repost it. —- “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for ...

The Robber Barons and the Real Gilded Age

History

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The Civil War marks a deep cleavage in American life; the increasingly industrialized ...

Stop Statism

Libertarianism

Statists are anti-progress. Statists claim their policies are for the common good. For some this claim is just a front to get more power, but for others it is a ...

Stop Rent-seeking

Libertarianism

This article is #17 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...

Smoking is Healthier than Fascism

Libertarianism

This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...

Progressives Against Progress

Economics

“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, ...

What’s the difference between a gas station and a hospital?

Economics

We hear a lot of Republican and Democrat talking points about healthcare.  As Libertarians, it’s important that people understand that we have our own voice and our own solutions for ...

Free Trade Now!

Economics

Free trade exists when governments do not interfere with commercial transactions between individuals domestically and internationally. Free trade makes America and the world better off.

Ethics and Business

Economics

Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was a businessman? The show that portrayed this businessman as a ...

Freedom and Majority Rule

Economics

By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World War I. A banquet in his honor was held in ...

A Quote from Rand to Consider

President's Blog

I ran across this quote in an email on the Christian Libertarian Yahoo Group, and it struck me in a particularly poignant way. It is sad, but so true, that ...

Paul Krugman: Stop Talking Please

News

If you have been following the news lately, you’ve likely heard a resurgence of the claim that Paul Krugman predicted the housing bubble and the ensuing economic catastrophe. Bill Anderson ...

“Economics in Christian Perspective” Book Review

Book Reviews

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Michael Douma as our next guest poster, reviewing "Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy, and Life Choices" by Victor Claar and Robin Klay.

ASC Day 3: Method and Politics and More!

Announcements

First off, thanks to everyone who has been following the ASC via my blog and twitter updates. It has been fun, not to mention challenging, to post what is going ...

ASC Day 1: Author’s Forum and a Jewish Rabbi

Announcements

The day began with coffee and bagels at the Mises Institute’s courtyard area. I met some nice people and caught some old friends that I hadn’t seen in quite a ...

“Myths America Lives By” Book Review

American History

A review of Richard Hughes’s book Myths America Lives By. Richard Hughes’s seminal book can be roughly described as exploding the myths in the American national subconscious, but this does ...

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