ethics

Is Catholicism anti-Libertarian?

Libertarianism

My good friend Daniel Coleman, who is Catholic and a libertarian, had an interesting email exchange with Dr. Tom Woods about Catholic teaching in tension with libertarian theory. The discussion ...

What is the point of private property if you cannot use it?

News

An interesting example of confusion about private property came up this past week. I formerly lived in St. Louis, and I loved listening to KFUO radio, one of the best ...

Podcast: War, Foreign Policy, and the Church (Part 1)

Appearances

As promised, the weekly podcast is here! In this selection from Christianity and War by Laurence Vance, we cover a lot of ground. So much so, in fact, that I ...

It’s Tax Day 2010, have you paid your fee to live?

Politics

Today is Thursday April 15th, 2010, and today your tax return is due. Last year I wrote a 10 article series leading up to April 15 called “10 Things I ...

Conscience on the Battlefield

Christian Ethics

Originally authored by Leonard Read, the following dialogue is imagined to have taken place while dying on a battlefield near the 38th Parallel in Korea. You could easily replace Korea ...

The Abrahamic Legacy: The Jewish Ideal of Freedom

Philosophy

A thought-provoking article about historical Judaism being connected to liberty appeared on LewRockwell.com yesterday, and I think it is well worth your time to peruse it. It was written by ...

Communism Kills

History

Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle ...

Defending Freedom and the Free Society

History

By Edmund Opitz. Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and hoped for the day when their children would be free. Gradually ...

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 ...

Can Christians Be Libertarians?

Christian Ethics

If a stranger told you he’s an evangelical Christian who believes homosexuality is a sin and that the Holy Bible is the inerrant word of God, which political label would ...

Why Christians Should Renounce Torture

War and Peace

This guest post is by LCC reader Jonathan Boatwright. Thank you for your submission, Jonathan! The views expressed in any guest article should not be construed as an official position ...

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: The Full Series

Economics

Ah taxation, how we despise thee. You make some richer, but most poorer. You daily remind us that we live not in a free society, but under shackles. Let us ...

New Year’s Resolutions for a Libertarian and a Christian

Christian Worldview

In March of 2006, the freedom movement lost one of its great advocates – Harry Browne. He was the Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate in both 1996 and 2000. He was ...

“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 ...

New Testament Theology of the State: Romans 13, Give Unto Caesar, and Other Bible Verses about Government

Christian Worldview

New Testament Theology of the State This paper was originally published on LewRockwell.com in September 2007 entitled, New Testament Theology of the State. In April 2008, it won the Best ...

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