Posts Tagged ‘ libertarianism ’

FreedomFest

May 15th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Libertarianism is, obviously, an idea whose time has come. Or maybe you don't like that term. There are plenty of others. My preference is old-fashioned. I like the term "liberal" -- or maybe "radical liberal" -- to distinguish my own intellectual commitments from the generation that naively believed that government ...read more

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Capitalism or Money in Crisis?

Jan 11th, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
When the Financial Times started its series on "Capitalism in Crisis," I winced. Here we go yet again, an attempt to blame private enterprise for what are actually the failures of the state and paper money. And some writers -- but not all -- in the series have done exactly ...read more

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Ron Paul and Liberty

Aug 17th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
If Ron Paul had won the Ames Iowa poll, the mainstream media would have dismissed the entire exercise as unimportant. If he had come in at, oh, 6th place, they would have used this as evidence that he is incompetent, not in the first rank of Republican candidates, can't get ...read more

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Legalize It

Jul 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
I don't use marijuana, medical or otherwise. I don't plan to take it up. Still, like an increasing number of Americans, I am vehemently opposed to the war on drugs. Several powerful arguments can be proffered in support of the notion that drug use is a poor life decision. It has ...read more

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Steve Forbes Did What in Vegas?!

May 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
A few years ago, I asked Steve Forbes to speak at my big show, FreedomFest, which I hold every July in Las Vegas. His secretary arranged for him to fly into Vegas in the morning, give his talk, sign a few books, and then fly back to New York in the ...read more

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Libertarianism vs. Statism

May 23rd, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
All of us have been born and raised within a statist box, one in which the federal government’s primary roles are to take care of people, regulate their economic activities, and maintain an overseas military empire that intervenes in the affairs of other countries. Both liberals and conservatives have come to ...read more

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Neither Left Nor Right: Of Liberty And Libertarians

Jan 4th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
I have always taken it as a good thing that libertarians are detested by both the left and the right. To me it is proof positive that we libertarians are in the right. After all, both the left and the right are fundamentally the same — authoritarian statists who wish ...read more

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