Strategy

Jeff Deist argues that libertarians should focus on making the case for decentralizing power.

Building a freer society means winning the battle of ideas, not the empty contests put on by the central government every four years.

Progressivism is a ravenous lion, conservativism is a neutered housecat. Failure to understand this is an enormous tactical and moral mistake for advocates of liberty.

Most Americans today are now reflexively progressive, meaning they want government to do something, rather than reflexively libertarian.

Mises: To seek to organize society is just as crazy as it would be to tear a living plant to bits in order to make a new one out of the dead parts.

Hillary Clinton has received $18,747 in campaign contributions from Federal Reserve employees — over four times more than all other candidates combined.

Nowhere are bigger gains being made in the battle of ideas than in Brazil.

Recognizing they have little chance of changing the outcome, people often vote to send a message about themselves. But, whatever the motivation, voting contrasts sharply with market choices where people actually bear the costs of their own decisions.

Jeff Deist recaps his recent talk, "Socialist Left vs. alt-Right: What it Means for Liberty," which generated plenty of comments from libertarians, progressives, and the alt-Right.