Politics

In a free society, the right to choose whom to associate with is fundamental, even when the choice is controversial.

The political establishment is trying to stoke panic that Trump is “politicizing” the Federal Reserve. But it’s already political. The real danger, from their perspective, is not that Trump is changing the Fed; it’s that he’s making its true nature harder to hide.

“Hate speech” does not exist. At all. That’s a concept the Left invented to justify state-enforced censorship of speech the Left doesn't like.

Equal protection laws supposedly protect individual rights by guaranteeing the law protects everyone equally. However, Murray Rothbard noted that these laws often are used to suppress those rights.

The lesson is stark: when moral responsibility is dispersed and accountability is nowhere to be found in a society fueled by propaganda, violence becomes more appealing.

A common objection to anarcho-capitalism is that only the state can offer workable defense services to people through police and the armed forces, as private defense agencies would have an incentive to be at constant war. This objection, however, is not valid.

Thanks to massive economic intervention by South Africa’s government, both crime and poverty are soaring as the society slowly implodes. Police protection is almost nonexistent, so many South Africans are turning toward private security as an alternative.

Dr. Gordon dissects Kenneth R. Minogue’s The Liberal Mind. While Minogue has some interesting arguments, his view of rights conflicts with the views of Murray Rothbard.

While the American people may have been ignorant of the foreign policy history of the 1990s to their detriment, and politicians—whether sincere or not—expressed bewilderment, many understood the direct link between foreign policy interventionism and terrorist attacks.

As politics come to dominate more of our lives and young generations grow righteously disillusioned with a system designed to rip them off, we’re likely to see more violence and chaos. It’s a bad path we’re on. But there is a better one.