Andy Greenberg has a fascinating interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange posted at Forbes.com. Assange states that he has been significantly influenced by “market libertarianism,” and though I disagree with ...
Originally by Edmund Opitz, published in the January 1993 edition of The Freeman. —- Countless generations of men have lived in unfree societies, but many men dreamed of freedom and ...
A quote from Edmund Opitz. —- “The human spirit seeks full and free expression in every department of life: in the spoken and written word; in music, sculpture and architecture; ...
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. ...
“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, ...
When confronted with a problem most people today turn to the government—but in reality, it’s often the government that created the problem and its continued involvement only exacerbates the problem. ...
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 ...
Yesterday evening, the illustrious U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. Thus Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and company have finished what ...
Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct ...
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.
Government policies cannot mimic the dynamism and spontaneity present in the market, and, in fact, more often than not create perverse and unintended consequences. The solution to environmental concerns is ...
I've been reticent to post a recap of Mises Circle Houston because I didn't have any photos of the event until yesterday. But now, everything is here and I'm happy ...
By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and thus in other sectors of his life as well. Smith’s ...
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 ...
By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of this is natural, due to limited knowledge; much of it ...
By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business sector of our society we’d direct him first of all ...
Libertarian Christians could learn something from our Jewish friends if we would pay attention. I had never heard of Rabbi Daniel Lapin before the Austrian Scholars Conference of 2009, but ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Greetings, my libertarian Christian friends and others from all over the libertarian blogosphere! Starting Wednesday, I will be live blogging the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises ...
Thomas Woods’s newest book Meltdown has officially hit the bookstores today, and I hope you will seriously consider picking up a copy for yourself. Woods is one of my favorite ...
In the world of academia, one of the things you regularly try to do is publish your research in peer-reviewed journals. Peer-reviewing is the process of having your work evaluated ...
Today I would like to invite you to read a bit about intellectual property. Last week, Jeff Tucker of the Mises Institute published a book review of Against Intellectual Monopoly ...
I love economics. I know, it’s a little weird, but it’s the truth. Turns out I will be going to the Austrian Scholars Conference 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises ...
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