Big Government

Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions. 

California politicians are in a state of denial as deadly wildfires burn out of control throughout the state, the latest being in Los Angeles. Their denialism in the face of real facts shows that California politically has become La-La Land.

Making it harder to do business with Americans is not the way to help domestic workers, small businesses, and everyone else in middle America who has been getting ripped off under our current political system.

There is always the choice between the market principle and the hegemonic principle. There is no third way or middle ground between the two, often presented as a “mixed economy.”

The recent back-and-forth on banning TikTok because it‘s said to be a “Chinese company” risks the US ironically becoming even more like China.

Not only was Joe Biden a failed president domestically, but he also was a failure in his foreign policy. From sending troops to Haiti, to the Ukraine war, to conflict in the Middle East, Biden never missed an opportunity to make a bad situation worse.

How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were trying to push the US in a direction of centralization, the Civil War completed the job. We see the results of those centralized outcomes daily.

Ralph Raico presents the fundamental political problem of the twentieth century, which remains our fundamental political problem today: How can war—given its appalling destruction—be avoided?

Donald Trump’s proposals to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and/or Canada represent another ridiculous betrayal of the “America First” ideology he ran on.

In The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard conceptualizes “the defense of the rights of person and property” as the foundation of libertarian law.