The Police State

Edward Snowden infiltrated the NSA in much the same way that an undercover police officer infiltrates a private criminal syndicate.

Interviewed by host Coy Barefoot, Mark Thornton talks about the NSA spying on Americans, and more.

Consider the sheer idiocy of paying legions of twenty-somethings who cannot speak Arabic, Farsi, or Pashtun, and who know practically nothing of the history, customs, folkways, and traditions of these places.

If law enforcement were to be governed by contractual principles, no one would need to fear that they were letting bulls into a china shop.

The efforts, spurred by Mayor Bloomberg, to ban large cans of drinks deemed too sugary have been much in the news lately; and a peculiar point in the mayor's defense of this measure is highly relevant to Laurence Vance's excellent book.

The threat of deadly force is implicitly present in every law, regulation, ruling, or decree that emanates from any government office, at any level.

Thomas DiLorenzo is probably best known to the public for his revisionist studies of Lincoln, but he has a wide range of economic and historical interests.

In the end, this is the choice we face: the total state or total freedom. Which will we choose?

Libertarians have as much claim to be champions of the working people — and, in many cases, a far better claim — than socialists do.