Those who value strong families, tight communities, hard work, and spiritual health should favor free trade so that the inputs upon which workers’ livelihoods depend are not artificially scarce; so that tariffs do not drain the purchasing power of consumers whose demand supports industries; so that nations are more reluctant to war with one another; and so that commerce, one of the great engines of social harmony, is not hindered between neighbors kept apart by political boundaries.
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 ...
