Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the reemergence—with a bang—in the last five years of a third and much neglected aspect of the real world, the “nation.” When the “nation” has been thought of at all, it usually comes attached to the state, as in the common word, “the nation-state,” but this concept takes a particular development of recent centuries and elaborates it into a universal maxim.

Tax reform is finally coming to the front of the Republican legislative agenda, but some of the potential provisions in the upcoming bill are not exactly small government ideas. In an effort to recoup revenue which will be lost from the abandonment of the border adjustment tax, Congress is once again considering Rep. Camp’s 2014 proposal on taxing advertisments.

In the wake of the Aurora Theater shooting, I suggested that private sector establishments ought to be expected to be more concerned about the safety of their customers. In the case of the Aurora Theater, this was magnified by the fact that the theater was a “gun free zone” and did not allow patrons to carry their own firearms as self defense.

The masterful words in the American Declaration of Independence that have inspired untold millions of people around the world hailed a transformative conception of man and the human condition by declaring that all men were created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights, including the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

With the ending of Democratic Party dominance of politics in many state capitols, right-to-work (RTW) laws, which ban conditioning employment on the payment of union dues, are on a roll. Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia have recently adopted them, raising the total to 28 states. 

Recent federal criminal charges of conspiracy and wire fraud brought against four assistant college basketball coaches and executives from Adidas seem to be popular in the mainstream media, judging from the numerous articles I have seen about the story.

Recently, Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled a single-payer healthcare plan called “Medicare for All.” Sanders titled his approach for nationalizing one-sixth of the American economy as “Medicare for All” in order to offer a template for his vision of the U.S. healthcare system. Unfortunately, using Medicare as the template for the nation’s healthcare system is a little like using the production model for the Lada, the “people’s car” of the former Soviet Union, as the blue-print for the U.S. auto industry.

When I was eight years old, I received The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Tom Woods as a Christmas gift. Like most books, it sat on my shelf for years before I would actually read it. I grew up in a moderate Republican household in a moderate Republican area, so my schools weren’t challenging any of my pre-conceived notions of American history.