by FLEXIT | Oct 3, 2017 | Ideas, News
We’re seeing a huge uptick in provinces and territories seeking independence from their parent countries all over the globe. I already wrote about Catalonia— a dramatic situation that is still ongoing — but they are by no means the only ones. And with these attempts...
by FLEXIT | Oct 2, 2017 | Ideas, News
by Robert Wenzel With separatist movements in the northern Iraq region of the Kurds, and in Catalonia, grabbing headlines, it is an appropriate time to think about such movements. Murray Rothbard once wrote: There runs through For a New Liberty (and most of the rest...
by Rhett | Sep 25, 2017 | Ideas
At the Virginia ratifying convention, Edmund Randolph said that reading the general welfare clause as a broad grant of power would “violate every rule of construction and common sense.”
by Rhett | Sep 7, 2017 | Ideas, News
by Ryan McMaken There’s an old saying that “he who distinguishes well teaches well.” In other words, if one’s going to talk about an important subject, one should be able to define his terms and tell the difference between two things that are...
by Rhett | Aug 30, 2017 | Ideas
by Ryan McMaken The battle over sanctuary cities is not just a matter of pitting some cities against federal policy. The conflict is also pitting cities against state governments. More than 30 states have moved with varying degrees of success to rein in so-called...
by Rhett | Aug 18, 2017 | Ideas
by Doug Casey Mankind has, so far, gone through three main stages of political organization since Day One, say 200,000 years ago, when anatomically modern men started appearing. We can call them Tribes, Kingdoms, and Nation-States. Karl Marx had a lot of things wrong,...
