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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

Saturday, March 30, 2013

TGIF: Loving Economics

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TGIF this week is a review essay of Peter Boettke’s new book, Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . Enjoy!
Friday, March 29, 2013

The Importance of Spontaneous Order in Teaching Libertarianism

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The good folks at Libertarianism.org dug up this 1981 video of my after-dinner talk on spontaneous order from back in my Libertarian Party ...

The Right-Wing Accepts Obama’s Tribalism When It Supports Israel

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The right-wing seemingly never misses a chance to go after Barack Obama for his collectivism and alleged dislike of America. Yet when Obama ...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Roderick Long Scores on the Marriage Equality Issue

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Victory Through Lexicography? | Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Op-ed: How the Media Beat the Drums for War

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How the News Media Betrayed Us on Iraq -- The Future of Freedom Foundation The tenth anniversary of the start of America’s illegal and ag...

Whose Idea Was It?

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With all that's going on, you may be forgiven for wondering if modern Israel was some anti-Semite's idea.

Israel's Greatest Fear

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Widespread nonviolent Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation is the Jewish state's greatest nightmare.
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Land Claim

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Favoring the expulsion of people from the land they and their kin have inhabited continuously for at least a millennium, because a deity all...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Latest Appearance on Scott Horton Show

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Scott Horton interviewed me last week about Bastiat's theory of how free markets socialize wealth. Listen here .
Friday, March 22, 2013

TGIF: Bastiat on the Socialization of Wealth

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My latest TGIF explores an aspect of Bastiat's thought that gets too little attention: "Bastiat on the Socialization of Wealth....
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Get the Name Right

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NBC chief diplomatic stenographer Andrea Mitchell noted yesterday that President Obama embarks today on his visit to Israel and the West Ban...

Recent Scribblings

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Op-ed: "The Dow Jones Is Lying" TGIF: "Freedom Overlooked"
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The Libertarian Angle

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Jacob Hornberger and I have started a new weekly Internet show for the Future of Freedom Foundation : The Libertarian Angle. Here's the ...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Op-ed: Cutting Government Would Boost Economy

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Budget sequestration is as modest a step toward cutting Leviathan as one can imagine. Further progress will be difficult as long as people ...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

The Vanishing Washington Post AIPAC Headline

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This was the headline on today's Washington Post page-two story about Vice President Joe Biden's appearance at the AIPAC (Israe...
Monday, March 04, 2013

TGIF: Sequestration and the Chimera of the Informed Voter

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Sequestration is not a disaster in the making, but how's the average person supposed to know that? I look in this question in my latest ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

What Sequestration Amounts to

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Source: Congressional Budget Office HT: Cato Institute

Big Bad Sequestration

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Friday, February 22, 2013

Latest scribblings

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Op-ed: "The Minimum Wage Harms the Most Vulnerable" TGIF: "What Support for the Minimum Wage Reveals" Op-ed: "The...

Unintended Consequence of the Minimum Wage?

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"Ironically, the minimum wage creates a reserve army of the unemployed. That in turn allows employers to be less thoughtful, helpful, a...
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