The front door opens in a rush of air, followed by the muffled patter of shoe-less feet racing across the threshold and up the stairs. A mother seated at the kitchen table calls out, “Are you all done outside?” A chorus of yeses returns from the second floor. The mother smiles and returns to her work. Moments later, her attention is disrupted by a
“Ask yourself whether you are willing to kill in an unjust war, whether decrees from the US government can provide sufficient moral justification for you to slaughter folks in Afghanistan or Nicaragua (in my day), or anywhere, and whether being called a coward is more frightening than selling your soul, so to speak. For me the answer is no, but I
David Gordon is a genius , a man whose intellectual abilities and output exceed mine. I make that claim without any sense of envy. I also claim our unequal conditions are beneficial to each other, and society in general. Because of these declarations, I am a classical liberal in the Misesian sense. Let me explain. First, I need to define left and
Words are funny. Strung together, they can have multiple meanings depending on the perceived context and reader’s viewpoint. I can make a statement with the intent to convey argument A, but the reader interprets my statement as not-A. An example: Trotsky, in “What Next? Vital Question for the German Proletariat” (published as “How Mussolini
Who defends your liberty? According to the establishment and current ethos, your rights exist because US soldiers roam the globe crushing yesterday’s enemy of the state. So your ability to speak your mind, worship God in personal and corporate ways, own property and the fruits of your labor, in short, your right to be left alone by government, is
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.