by Rhett | Jul 17, 2017 | Ideas
by Ryan McMaken Patrick Buchanan is an informative and interesting writer. On foreign policy, especially, he’s long been one of the most reasonable voices among high-level American pundits. When it comes to cultural matters, however, Buchanan has long held to a...
by Rhett | Jul 13, 2017 | Ideas
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The...
by Rhett | Jul 5, 2017 | Ideas
by Robert Higgs As a child in government schools, I must have recited the pledge of allegiance thousands of times. And not once did it occur to me that the “one nation . . . indivisible” part of it is simply an embrace of the Lincolnian heresy, a preemptive attack on...
by FLEXIT | May 1, 2017 | Ideas
“To assume that government gives you rights takes you down a very dangerous path. After all, whatever government gives, government can take away.”
by FLEXIT | Jan 24, 2017 | Ideas
by Fabio Andreotti Majority voting inevitably alienates large parts of a population. As a Swiss citizen, I am all too aware of that fact, since we go to the polls as often as six times a year. This may be the necessary price of our more direct form of representative...
by FLEXIT | Jan 19, 2017 | Ideas
by Ryan McMaken From the perspective of the state, one of the benefits of growing larger geographically is that bigness makes it more difficult for residents to emigrate or cross over borders to escape taxes. In his writings on the origins of the...