Our job is to teach one of liberalism's most groundbreaking insights, namely, that societies run themselves without plan or command-when allowed.
To treat people as ends, not means, is a libertarian issue.
U.S. hawks aren't telling the full story about Iran's agenda.
The "thick" and "thin" of libertarian philosophy.
America cannot live in liberty with a government equipped to meddle in foreign countries.
Russia isn't the only country that regards its "backyard" as its playground. The U.S. acts the same way.
Forget guaranteeing loans to corrupt government officials or facing down the Russians over Crimea. Open the borders!
We vilify leisure yet embrace labor-saving devices.
The question is whether President Obama has the backbone to withstand the pressure to "get tougher" with Russia.
Should bigots be allowed to exclude gays or blacks? They should be stopped-not by the state, but by nonviolent social action.
It's about time American politicians saw how their foreign policies look to those on the receiving end.
The deadly consequences - and culpability - continue long after the last soldier leaves.
The progressive message is "vote or you have no voice."
Why does their rhetoric make us doubt their sincerity about seeking a diplomatic resolution?
One cannot critique the surveillance state without critiquing the rest of the existing political apparatus.
In sizing up Obama's "reforms" of the indiscriminate gathering of data on every American, remember this: Politicians will do everything they can get away with in pursuit of their own agenda.
The erroneous belief that only rights violations may be condemned leads too easily to the corollary error that if some conduct is wrong, it must somehow be a rights violation.
Patents and copyrights are government monopoly grants with nothing in common with the notion of property at the heart of libertarianism.
We leave nations corrupted, authoritarian, and full of violence.
Religious people who oppose contraception are not the only people with rights against the government. No one should be subjected to government mandates.
Our regulations price low-income people out of greater job potential. That is a crime.
The division of human life into the moral and the practical is of recent vintage.
The American people should know that a pending bill could commit the United States to go to war against Iran.
Although he and his movement eliminated apartheid, they left in place a government powerful enough to control the economic system to the detriment of working people.
And keeping the troops there won't change that.
How do we get from the right to one's body to the right to one's (justly acquired) possessions, including land?
Another campaign promise dies as the U.S. government hammers out a deal to keep troops in a war-torn country.
How much easier it would be to bring others to the libertarian position if we realized that they already agree with us in substantial ways?
Lesson for foreign leaders who are in the doghouse with the U.S. government: Get a nuke.
Web problems can be fixed, Obamacare cannot.
Inflation serves the governing class and hurts honest, hardworking people.
Congress and Netanyahu stand in his way.
Americans are kept frightened, and politicians get to spend, tax, borrow, and coerce as usual.
President Obama and Speaker Boehner act like children
Five years after the housing and financial meltdown, self-styled progressives are still peddling the Glass-Steagall pseudoexplanation.
America's hostile attitude undercuts Iranian moderates and bolstered the hardliners
The state has become entwined in our lives, and we are much worse off because of it
People often ask whether the United States can trust Iran. The better question is whether the United States government is worthy of trust.
If the "consent of the governed" is a sacred American principle, how does the government borrow money in our names and compel us to repay the debt?
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