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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005

"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, 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...

Friday, September 30, 2022

TGIF: The Scourge of Conscription

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By now Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" ought to be such a cliche that it would hardly need...

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Speechless

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Wisdom from the New York Times editorial board: It was only government power that ended slavery and abolished Jim Crow, neither of which...

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Lincoln

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My friend Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, a Civil War scholar as well as an economist and economic historian, has written a spot-on op-ed about Abra...

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Regarding the "Founding Fathers"

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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? --Samuel Johnson, "Taxation No Tyranny," 1775 ...

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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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