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Douglas Wilson tells Idaho to embrace Nullification

History

Via Tom Woods, we find Pastor Douglas Wilson giving a sermon to the Idaho governor and legislature on nullification! He even references Tom Woods’s book at around minute 18. ...

Everyone Should Use LSD

Economics

The character Flik in the movie A Bug’s Life was always on the lookout for an invention that would improve the lot of his ant colony. In the story, the ants ...

What do we do about slavery now?

Theology

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course by John Cobin, author of the books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. This column is the ...

Which kind of Equality?

Culture

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The eighteenth century writers, seeking to set forth the features of a ...

Classical Liberalism and Religion

Libertarianism

Originally by Edmund Opitz in the November 1985 issue of The Freeman. Classical liberalism created a revolutionary new view of the political State, its nature and proper functions. We may ...

News of the Week: November 21 to 27, 2010

History

Recapping interesting things in the news and on the net in the past week. LRC reminds us that the war of our dear “Christian” president George W. Bush has resulted ...

Architects of Leviathan

Politics

By Edmund Opitz Opitz delivered this paper in October 1973 before Hillsdale College students and faculty during “Political Morality: From Socrates to Nixon,” the first seminar of the Center for ...

Book Review: Leviathan at War edited by Edmund A. Opitz

Book Reviews

Perhaps the most valid justification of government is its defense of citizens against foreign aggressors. But when governments wage war, a thin line separates defense and offense. And even in ...

My Journey Through Liberty

Libertarianism

I’d like to describe some of the elements of my religious heritage, personal history, and intellectual development that have brought me thus far. If you are reading this and are ...

“Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce” Book Review

Book Reviews

A Book Review of Stanley Weintraub’s Silent Night. Some book reviews that I write are rather long, primarily because they were originally written for a theology class or something similar. ...

The Christmas Truce

History

In celebration of the birthday of the Prince of Peace… All those who know Him, rejoice in the Lord! Update: Incidentally, historian Stanley Weintraub has written an interesting book on ...

“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 ...

Book Review: Founding Faith, by Steven Waldman

Book Reviews

A book review of Founding Faith (subtitle: Providence, Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America) by Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief of BeliefNet.com. Introduction In Founding Faith, Steven Waldman sets ...

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