Choice: Why Many Feel Voting Doesn’t Matter
What comes to mind when we think about choice? Around this time, every other year, we think of voting as a choice. But is it really? For a lot of ...
What comes to mind when we think about choice? Around this time, every other year, we think of voting as a choice. But is it really? For a lot of ...
Just recently Americans celebrated one of the high holy days of our faith. Tens of millions of people took part in it and demonstrations occurred in every state. The airways ...
Is it justifiable to vote for an immoral candidate from a scriptural perspective? Does Romans 13 give you a way out?
Today we begin a new series of posts considering views on voting from different Christian perspectives. We hope you’ll think about these issues carefully, regardless of what you decide. Historically ...
Can pro-life Christians vote in good faith for a pro-choice candidate? Richard Mouw of Fuller Theological Seminary, along with other prominent evangelicals seem to think so since, in their view, ...
This guest post is by Kollin Fields. Kollin is a Ph.D student in American intellectual history and political philosophy. His essays have appeared at the Libertarian Christian Institute, the Foundation ...
“Have you voted today?” I remember uttering these words when calling up random, local people on the phone hours before the end of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. Somehow I ...
Just pretend you are the owner of a business in the process of hiring a sales represenative. As you listen to a potential new hire and assess his qualifications, ...
Sometimes people say, “If you didn’t vote, don’t complain.” Nonsense. Everyone can complain. Complaining about pompous politicians and oppressive regulations doesn’t require participation in popularity lotteries. In fact, if one were ...
I want to do a brief thought experiment. Despite the implausibility of this scenario, I think it might explain why libertarians should be less pessimistic about the future. So here ...
Today, being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day. Aside from the fact that I don’t vote, and therefore couldn’t even vote for myself, there are ...
Please remove me from your mailing list, “I’m just totally uninterested in your view of politics,” wrote a former student and friend. I have been described (and dismissed) by some ...
Recapping the interesting and significant news, articles, and media of the past few weeks… One of my favorite guys at the Cato Institute, Gene Healy, has a new “sequel” out ...
Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. American Christians should be concerned about drugs not because the drugs themselves harm (some do, and some not ...
There are innumerable arguments about the legitimacy and morality of government and its proper scope, all of which are worth exploring. Public Choice Theory examines an entirely different question than ...
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the March 1965 issue of The Freeman. The ...
This guest post is by Craig White. America is at war, in many faraway lands. By normal definitions, we are now at war in Afghanistan, Iraq (until the troops leave), ...
Did this post title turn your head? Did you wonder what this would be about? Me too. Actually, I have been lax about answering some of the Libertarian FAQ Questions ...
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