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Leave it to government judges and politicians to turn constitutional protections of free speech into new ways to centralize and grow state power. 

How, in view of this constellation, is a libertarian to position himself? The answer I gave last year still holds today. Faced with inter-state wars, i.e. wars between rival gangs sustained by taxation, confiscation and conscription, a libertarian should stay “neutral.”

Two guiding principles must be followed by small states and even more so by secessionist movements, whether leading to another, smaller state or a state-less territory (an anarchic social order): First, do not provoke, and second, be armed. 

David Gordon reviews Dan Moller's book Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism, in which the author examines the issue of a welfare state in a libertarian society.

Subjective valuation, which is at the heart of Austrian economic thinking, is not the same thing as someone's opinion.

Residential electricity sources are becoming yet another form of “virtue signaling.”

Join Bob Murphy, Patrick Newman, Jonathan Newman, and Murray Sabrin in Florida this November.

The upcoming general election in Argentina would pass moderately unnoticed in the rest of the world, as it normally does, except for an unexpected

There are many factors that affect the yield on government bonds.

There’s constant carping about people streaming across the U.S. southern border, giving the word immigration a bad name.