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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

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Friday, December 09, 2022

TGIF: Why Freedom Is the Goal

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In online interviews and conversations I'm hearing intellectuals in the national conservative movement say that the liberal Enlightenmen...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power

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Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." ...

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Friday, September 23, 2016

TGIF: Neither Democracy nor Elitism

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Whenever we libertarians point out democracy's perverse incentives (as I do here ) we risk being accused of elitism. However, those who ...

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Sunday, May 25, 2014

A Further Thought for the Day

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Here's a passage I've always liked from Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man : Another neighbour, a patriarchal old E...

Monday, January 23, 2012

Nock on Moral Education

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The point is that any enlargement [of the State], good or bad, reduces the scope of individual responsibility, and thus retards and crip...

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Sheldon Richman: 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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