Politics

The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond?

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.

For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.

Ryan McMaken points out that the American "great experiment" failed many decades ago. In fact, the current republic we call "the United States" is clearly a completely different republic than the one founded back in the late eighteenth century. The founding fathers wouldn't recognize it at all.

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.

For too long, people have thought of the airwaves and waterways as “public” property that is best controlled by government. However, Murray Rothbard and others held that one could apply the institution of private property to both.

Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.

Mamdani’s election is not the cause of economic decline. Instead, New York City’s slide into chaos has been ongoing for many years, and Mamdani promises to make things even worse.

Murray Rothbard knew that egalitarianism always resulted in policy disaster. Egalitarians, he said, should be forced to justify their egalitarian demands.

Social contract theory was used to critique a form of the state, but was also used to legitimize the modern nation-state.