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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Friday, December 05, 2025

TGIF: Defending Israeli Mass Murder Isn't Easy

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Although much has already been said, I can't not comment on Sarah Hurwitz, the former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama speechwriter, wh...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

TGIF: Socialism with a Fig Leaf

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What work does democratic perform in the phrase  democratic socialism ? It's a fig leaf intended to conceal what would presumably be re...
Friday, November 21, 2025

What's Wrong with Young People?

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A former Obama speechwriter faulted young people for having the faculty of abstraction when thinking about the Holocaust, genocide, Israel, ...
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TGIF: The Capitalist-Socialist Asymmetry

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Free-marketeers have long pointed out a particular asymmetry between capitalism and socialism (whether of the international or national vari...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Orwell on Socialists

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"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hop...
Friday, November 14, 2025

TGIF: Benevolent Self-Interest

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The most famous sentence in Adam Smith's 1776 treatise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , appears in  Boo...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Abolish the Corporation Tax and All Other Taxes on Investment

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Corporate taxes and other taxes on investment constitute double and sometimes triple taxation. That's more unjust than taxation of labor...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Latest Interview

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Michael Liebowitz and I had a conversation recently on his podcast, The Rational Egoist . Enjoy!
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Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."
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