Tag: individual liberty

Libertarianism

Constitutional Restraints on Power

American political institutions presuppose certain convictions about human nature, the worth and prerogatives of persons, the meaning of life, the ...

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Libertarianism

On Fluffy Animals, Armed Bandits, and the Inner Logic of Libertarianism

What is libertarianism? In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick famously defines libertarianism as a social philosophy committed to ...

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History

Protection, Defense, Retaliation, and Self-Ownership

This is a guest post written by Todd Lewis, who graduated from Malone University with a degree in history and ...

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Economics

Human Nature and the Free Society

By Edmund Opitz. —- Is there anything in the basic makeup of the men and women we know, or those ...

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Libertarianism

Six Reasons Christians Should Hate the War on Drugs

The War on Drugs was instigated by the U.S. federal government in 1970, but the policy of drug prohibition has ...

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Libertarianism

How Freedom Depends on Easter

Some people may think that Resurrection Sunday is unrelated to the important themes we discuss regularly on LibertarianChristians.com, The Libertarian ...

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Christian Worldview

Conservatism Laid Bare

“Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It’s the only one. It’s based on thousands of years of human experience. There ...

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Economics

Painting Government Into a Corner

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was ...

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Libertarianism

Who Owns You?

This article is #21 – and the final article – of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, ...

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Libertarianism

Tax Slavery Sucks

This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Stop Statism

Statists are anti-progress. Statists claim their policies are for the common good. For some this claim is just a front ...

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Libertarianism

Social Slavery

The current Social Security (aka “socialist insecurity”) system is designed as a pay-as-you-go system, in which current workers’ tax dollars ...

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Economics

Progressives Against Progress

“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet ...

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Politics

Politics Hurt

When confronted with a problem most people today turn to the government—but in reality, it’s often the government that created ...

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Economics

ImmiGreat

Thanks in large part to misinformation, protectionist legislation passed with the support of Big Labor and other rent-seeking groups, and ...

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Politics

I Am Not a Number

When you were born, your parents or guardians gave you a name. At the same time (assuming you were born ...

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Politics

Homeland Tyranny

This article is #10 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Economics

Freedom and Majority Rule

By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World ...

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Christian Ethics

Perspectives on Religion and Capitalism

By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of ...

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Book Reviews

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

Perhaps the most valid justification of government is its defense of citizens against foreign aggressors. But when governments wage war, ...

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Libertarianism

My Journey Through Liberty

I’d like to describe some of the elements of my religious heritage, personal history, and intellectual development that have brought ...

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Media

What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce

This video doesn’t really have anything to do with Christian libertarian stuff, but it is an interesting comment on how ...

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Christian Worldview

New Year’s Resolutions for a Libertarian and a Christian

In March of 2006, the freedom movement lost one of its great advocates – Harry Browne. He was the Libertarian ...

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