I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that people should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
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. ...
Conspirators for the Constitution
by John W. Whitehead
Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy isn’t a real crime to anyone but the U.S. government. ...
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 ...
