People believe that, when we demand free trade, we are motivated exclusively by the desire to allow labor and capital to take the direction most advantageous to them. Public opinion is mistaken on this point; this is merely a secondary consideration with us. What grieves us, afflicts us, horrifies us in the protectionist system is that it is the negation of law, justice, and property rights; that it turns the law, which should guarantee justice and the right to property, against them; that it both subverts and perverts the conditions under which society exists.
What Debt Ceiling?
Statists all across the United States, especially those within the mainstream press, are uncorking their champagne bottles today and celebrating the newest deal that lifts the debt ceiling. Predictably, the political strategy of crying “Default! Default! Default!” succeeded spectacularly, just as it does every time. In fact, it worked so well that this time Congress decided to not even set a new ceiling. ...
The Korean War Was a Senseless Waste of American Lives
by Laurence M. Vance
The remains of an American soldier were laid to rest on Memorial Day at the Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia after a police car ...
Snowden and the Fight for American Privacy by James Bovard
Edward Snowden did heroic service in awakening Americans to Washington ravishing their privacy. Snowden’s “reward” is to be banished in Russia without ...
No, It Is Not Possible to be an Imperial Libertarian
by Ted Galen Carpenter
There have been a distressing number of occasions in which someone has said to me that they embrace libertarian principles and positions—“except ...
Rein in the FBI
by John W. Whitehead
Power corrupts. We know this. In fact, we know this from experience learned the hard way at the hands of our own government....
