I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose, if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
June 15, 2022 An Endless Stream of Scary Official Enemies
Any government that is a national-security state needs big official enemies — scary ones, ones that will cause the citizenry to continue supporting not only the continued existence of a national-security state form of government but also ever-growing budgets for it and its army of voracious “defense” contractors. That’s, of course, what the current brouhaha about Russia is all about. It’s really a ...
Supreme Court Tortures the Constitution Again by James Bovard
The Supreme Court ruled in March that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never ...
Albert J. Nock's "Isaiah's Job" Today by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What role does Albert Jay Nock's essay "Isaiah's Job" play in the libertarian movement today? Join FFF ...
And Then There Were Three
by Laurence M. Vance
The Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R.7691), which provides $40.1 billion for “appropriations for defense equipment, migration and refugee assistance, ...
