Berlin Wall's Fall Didn't Resolve Everything
Has the promise of freedom that looked so bright in 1989 faded-or are there grounds for cautious hope, in place of the wild-eyed optimism of a quarter century ago?
Has the promise of freedom that looked so bright in 1989 faded-or are there grounds for cautious hope, in place of the wild-eyed optimism of a quarter century ago?
U.S. Border Patrol agents are routinely harassing American citizens who just want to drive home from work.
Once it grows to a certain size, so-called democratic government begins to soften and weaken the people.
There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Valeria Novodvorskaya died just as the Putin regime was being fully exposed as the gangster state that she had always said it was.
"I don't want to 'grow up,' if growing up means abandoning the principle that individuals matter," writes Matt Kibbe in Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto.
When the government takes away our free will, the government steals a gift from God; it violates the natural law; it prevents us from having and utilizing the means to the truth.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has no problem with experiments with American liberties, unless she and her staff are the victims.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may face international disapproval from the West over his Crimean actions, but at home, he's enjoying his highest approval ratings in years.
The value of life is determined not by the mere drawing of one breath after another, but by the freedom to make our own decisions.
The next step in expelling police and legislators from the bedrooms of consenting adults
While the Internet can be regulated, and information can be controlled, it can only be done on an increasingly small margin, and at an increasingly high cost.
Vaccination is a wise idea, but in a free society, we must tolerate bad choices.
Maybe some actions don't actually speak louder than words
Give freedom a chance
How do we get from the right to one's body to the right to one's (justly acquired) possessions, including land?
Praises its use in helping people organize
Moscow's election this weekend will help gauge the future of freedom in Russia.
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