All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient: the duty of superintending the industry of private people.
The CIA's Deadly Drug-Running Operation
In an article I wrote last August entitled “The Torture and Execution of Kiki Camarena,” I recommended a Netflix documentary entitled The Last Narc. It revolves around the torture and execution of a DEA agent named Kiki Camarena, who was operating out of Guadalajara, Mexico. (Yes, the DEA enforces America’s drug war in foreign countries.) While it was the Guadalajara ...
The War on Consumption
by Laurence M. Vance
Although Americans believe that they live in a free county — some would even say the freest country on earth — that freedom is ...
Freedom of Conscience
by Laurence M. Vance
Libertarian philosopher and historian George H. Smith (1949–2022), in his collection of essays titled Freethought and Freedom, incisively remarked that “without freedom of conscience ...
What to Do about California's Mass Killings
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What do we do about the latest spate of mass killings in California, which has some the ...
The Historical Foundation of Civil Liberties, Part 3
by Tom G. Palmer
Let’s examine the contemporary use of the term civil liberties. The use of the term in the way that we’re now accustomed to dates to the ...
