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Going Back Toward a Durable Society

Economics

This guest post was written by Paul LaScola.  If complete slavery is defined as full forceful control over one’s actions by another person or persons, then taxation is a lesser ...

Ep 65: The Moral Superiority of Capitalism with Jay Richards

Podcast

Capitalism has gotten a bad rap, unfortunately because most people are unaware of what it truly means. Marxism beliefs are creeping into the public’s view of economics, causing people to ...

Ep 64: The Abortion Debate with Kerry Baldwin

Podcast

The issue of abortion is of great concern to pro-lifers, yet even libertarians debate the political issues with as much disagreement as the left and the right. Is there a ...

New Research: Government is Killing Us

Libertarianism

Here in rural Indiana, as in much of the Midwest, it’s difficult to escape the visual reminder of the ubiquity of corn and soybeans in the American diet. Every morning ...

Ep 63: Christian Economics with Victor Claar

Podcast

Is there a Christian view of economics? If so, what makes The Economic Way of Thinking different for the Christian? Why do people easily believe economic fallacies? Today Dr. Victor ...

All States Violate Liberty

Libertarianism

Today’s guest post is by Paul LaScola. Consider the proposition that a condition of individual liberty exists if all individuals are in full control of their own property: one’s life, ...

Ep 62: Conscious Capitalism with Alexander McCobin

Libertarianism

The left frequently criticizes free market capitalism with inaccurate caricatures and economic fallacies. However, in recent years, many business leaders and academics have been revisiting the philosophical foundations of capitalism ...

Economics, Hierarchy, and the Question of the State’s Inevitability

Economics

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 ...

Ep 61: Reaching Kids with the Message of Liberty with Connor Boyack

Libertarianism

Connor Boyack is president of Libertas Institute, a free market think tank in Utah. He is the author of the popular libertarian book series for children, The Tuttle Twins, as ...

Ep 60: Busting Myths about the State with Zack Rofer

Libertarianism

Tired of hearing bad arguments about why the state is good, but need a better way to respond? Author Zack Rofer (pseudonym) has you covered with his free e-book, Busting ...

Achieving Power, Printing Money, Creating Wealth

Achieving Power, Printing Money, Creating Wealth

History

  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 ...

Jesus, Natural Law, and Economics

Economics

Today’s guest post is by writer/commentator Paul LaScola.   The sense of God and commerce have both been with mankind throughout history. These two characteristics of man — one spiritual, ...

Ep 59: The Way Back with Jonathan Bock

Podcast

Regardless of your denomination, many American Christians have the sense that something is wrong in the Church today. Have we forgotten our mission and values, and if so, what can ...

The Free Market at Work

Economics

In 2013, in response to the increasing “open carry” debate, Howard Schultz, the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Starbucks posted an open letter on the company’s website requesting ...

Ep 58: Entrepreneurship and Human Flourishing with Chris Horst

Podcast

Chris Horst is the vice president of development at HOPE International, where he employs his passion for advancing initiatives at the intersection of faith and work. Chris also serves on ...

Ep 57: Getting Control of the Gun Debate with Trevor Burrus

Podcast

The gun control debate in the United States has raged on for decades, and in many ways has escalated in recent years. Every time there is a mass shooting, calls ...

Ep 56: Libertarian Christian Q&R, Round 2

Podcast

Join us for our second episode where we answer questions you have submitted, as well as popular topics from our Facebook group. We talk about cannabis, whether libertarianism can become ...

Ep 55: Social Justice and Libertarianism with Jason Jewell

Podcast

Concern for social justice has become one of the most effective ways for Christians to signal that they care about the world’s poor, yet below the surface of this virtue ...

The GOP Tax Reform Plan: A Libertarian Analysis

Economics

Last month I did a preliminary libertarian analysis of the Republicans’ newest tax-reform plan. I concluded that their “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code” left us with too ...

Wealth, Welfare and Charity

Economics

There are many divergent views about specific topics within libertarian Christian thought, just as there are within strictly libertarian or strictly Christian thinking. But the overarching theme that unites the ...

Wind Energy: Destroying the Midwest One “Farm” at a Time

Economics

My father and I recently finished publishing a book entitled Paradise Destroyed: The Destruction of Rural Living by the Wind Energy Scam. The book reached #1 on Amazon for “New ...

Americans Are Quadruple Taxed

Economics

It has often been pointed out that corporate profits are double taxed when a corporation pays income tax on its profit and then shareholders pay income tax on that same ...

What’s Next For Liberty?

Economics

* Today’s guest post comes from Justin Nguyen, founder and Director of Nguyen Solutions, a Christian libertarian-owned startup currently crowdfunding a campaign to recycle food using the black soldier fly. ...

Airbnb and the “Housing Shortage” Nonsense

Economics

If I hear another bureaucrat complain about Airbnb creating a “shortage” of housing, I’ll vomit. Airbnb, like the steam engine, wash machine, and internet, is a disruptive business innovation of ...

A Christian Defense of Capitalism

Libertarianism

*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 ...

Twelve False Assumptions Behind Mainstream Politics

History

1. That the world’s problems can be solved by passing more laws. The more rules there are, the less freedom we have. There are now more criminal laws in the ...

Jamin Hübner on How State Accreditation Hinders Education

Libertarianism

Jamin Hübner, General Editor of LCI’s new research journal, Christian Libertarian Review, recently published an academic piece in The Journal of Religious Leadership on the bureaucratic roadblocks to accreditation caused ...

The Rich Young Man Conundrum (Mark 10:17-23)

Theology

Today’s guest post is by Rev. Jacob Chulsung Kim, PhD.   Libertarian-leaning Christians face resistance from other believers for many reasons, one of which is the problem of greed. Because ...

Phony Anarchists

Libertarianism

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 ...

The Global Populist Revolt and the Church

History

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 ...

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