Whenever a Government assumes the power of discriminating between the different classes of the community, it becomes, in effect, the arbiter of their prosperity, and exercises a power not contemplated by any intelligent people in delegating their sovereignty to their rulers. It then becomes the great regulator of the profits of every species of industry, and reduces men from dependence on their own exertions, to a dependence on the caprices of their Government. Governments possess no delegated right to tamper with individual industry a single hair's-breadth beyond what is essential to protect the rights of person and property.
–William Leggett
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
July 11, 2023
Why Shouldn't a University Be Free to Adopt Affirmative Action?
Not surprisingly, right-wingers are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to declare affirmative-action policies at American universities to be unconstitutional. In the process, conservatives fail to recognize that they are, at the same time, celebrating the further destruction of American liberty and private-property rights. After all, why shouldn’t a private university, like Harvard, be free to establish any policy it wants for admitting students? ...
A State of Martial Law
by John W. Whitehead
The government is goosestepping all over our freedoms. Case in point: America’s founders did not want a military government ruled by...
Libertarian Angle: What's Wrong with Socialism? by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss all the things wrong with socialism.
How Not to Abolish the Income Tax by Laurence M. Vance
Throughout this country’s history, Americans have always paid taxes of various kinds. But no matter what kind, all taxation is theft. Everyone but a ...
