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Liam McCollum

Liam McCollum (@MLiamMcCollum) is a student at the University of Montana’s School of Law, with interests in foreign policy, constitutional law, revisionist history, and Austrian economics. He previously served as a Mises Apprentice and as a Hazlitt Apprentice with the Foundation for Economic Education.

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What Exactly Happened at the Libertarian Convention?

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“Thin Libertarianism” and the Dave Smith-Liquid Zulu Debate

12/05/2025 Power & Market Liam McCollum

Libertarianism is not a philosophy of tolerance toward all non-violent behavior. Rather, it is a philosophy of intolerance toward unjust violence.

Jordan Peterson and the Real “Dark Tetrad”

05/12/2025 Mises Wire Liam McCollum

Peterson implies the “dark tetrad” is emerging on the non-interventionist right, cloaking their real intentions with conservative rhetoric. Interestingly, however, a historical parallel exists in neoconservatism, whose intellectual roots are deeply rooted in Machiavellianism.

How Slavery Radicalized Lysander Spooner

06/19/2024 Power & Market Liam McCollum

How does a radical libertarian abolitionist attorney from the North go from passionately defending the United States Constitution–arguing that the document prohibited slavery from its ratification–to...

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