We don't need UBI to enable people to tell bosses to take the job and shove it.
It doesn't matter if those to whom you sell goods or labor are not the same as those from whom you buy these things. The same goes for America.
You cannot advocate trade restrictions without also advocating state-bestowed privilege.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
We must find a way to rekindle the antimilitarist spirit that hysteria about imagined enemies has extinguished.
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
When anyone says, "I'm for free trade, but it must be fair trade," they are really saying: "I am not for free trade."
There's been little sign that those who despise Trump are beginning to understand that the only real solution lies in radically shrinking the state.
The concern about radicalization by Muslims in the U.S. is a red herring intended to make Americans distrust foreigners and immigration in general.
The FBI's handling of the Michael Flynn case is disturbing.
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all.
Information-and, yes, misinformation-flows more easily and cheaply than ever, making access nearly universal. That's a good thing.
Jihadists would be no threat to Americans who were left to mind their own business.
Little Nationalism can be as destructive of human flourishing as Big Nationalism.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
Rid private functions of all symbols of the church-state. Then play ball.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Those who migrate from libertarianism to the alt-right have rejected the essence of the freedom movement and its philosophy.
The great disrupter of the establishment turns out to be-surprise, surprise-a man of the establishment.
Antiglobalism and anticosmopolitanism might flow purely from economic ignorance, but it is hard to believe that's all it is for many people.
The Truman war council discussed using atomic bombs just two weeks after the Korean War started.
If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.
People are people whether they are acting in the marketplace or in the political arena.
Strictly speaking, it's not markets that can and should be free-it's people.
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO.
From the discussion, you would never know the money in question actually belongs to particular individuals, who obtained it through voluntary exchange or gift.
Remember this the next time someone asks, "Can we trust North Korea?" The more appropriate question is whether North Korea can trust the U.S. government.
The heart of the potential for conflicts of interests is not the Trump business empire. It's the presidential power to steer benefits to particular interests.
Trump leaves the impression that Americans shoulder an unnecessarily large military burden because some NATO members underfund their military establishments. But that's nonsense.
If universal access to medical care is the goal, the government is the goalie. It should get out of the way.
It's time we learn that killing and dying for an ideology-even so-called liberal democracy- is as bad as doing so for a religion.
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election is predetermined for power and against liberty.
The people's best political framework is neither democracy nor epistocracy but original liberalism, or what we today call libertarianism.
We each have two legitimate ways to acquire any good: produce it ourselves or acquire it through trade. For most goods, trade will be the lower cost method.
Trump can't let himself acknowledge that our problem is not American weakness but American strength.
The GOP candidate expressed envy that Saddam Hussein could "kill terrorists" without due process.
"Every part of my product is made in the USA." What could be wrong with that? Lots of things...
Big banks needed government help to pull off the heist.
Terrorism, if it to have any meaning, is a political, not a sadistic, act.
The aggrieved-nation shtick has been the strongman's path to power many times in the past. We shouldn't discount it today.
Sanders and Trump are flaming protectionists, which means they peddle perhaps the oldest, most-thoroughly discredited economics doctrine ever spoken.
The United States was born in reaction to a tax rebellion, which is not exactly a libertarian pedigree.
We shouldn't aspire to be a great nation. We should aspire to be fully free persons.
Since the beginning of the republic, nationalists have warned that because America is exceptional, it faces constant danger.
If this is disestablishmentarianism American-style, we are in bad shape.
Trump's shameful wimping out under firm questioning about Iraq may reflect troubles in the polls.
George W. Bush has culpability for both 9/11 and the Iraq war. Keep the pressure on, Donald.
The only fair measure would be to abolish registration and never draft anyone again.
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