By Sheldon Richman Reason In 1970 country singer Lynn Anderson had a hit recording of a Joe South song that opened with the line: “I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.” I often think of that song in connection with the libertarian philosophy. You […]
This is a must watch. Matt Welch provides a very thorough description of how the hard Left has gone from being defenders of free speech on campuses in the 1960s to enemies of free speech comparable to 1960s-era reactionaries or Eastern European Communists. By Matt Welch and Amanda […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition John Dewey famously argued that an educated populace is the backbone of a Democratic society. The school of thought he espoused has been known as “progressive education” which promoted egalitarianism, intellectual creativity and above all, a pro-Democratic mentality. Dewey stood fiercely opposed to […]
Jeff is interviewed by the inestimable Chris Cantwell for Some Garbage Podcast, topics include: police state savagery, victimless crimes, US foreign intervention, apalling state worship in the west, fight or flight with the US, expatriation, the Anarchapulco conference, police aggression not tolerated in Mexico, Mexico in an economic […]
An absolute must listen. Tom Woods interviews John Whitehead. Listen here. John Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. He established the Rutherford Institute back in 1982 and still serves as President and […]
By Ilana Mercer Libertarian Alliance April the 15th marked Holocaust Memorial Day. Nearly everyone knows about the industrial killing of 6 million Jews, for no other reason than that they were Jews. “Serious historiography” of the subject has ensured that The Shoah, Holocaust in Hebrew, is “consigned to […]
Paul Gottfried sets the historical record straight in this interview with Tom Woods. Listen here. Terms like fascist and fascism get thrown around indiscriminately by people who know how toxic they are and who want to demonize their opponents. But almost nothing and no one accused of fascism […]
Delivered by Professor Denis McManus (Head of Philosophy, Head of Research) Anarchism has taken many different forms over the centuries but this talk will look at one way in which modern anarchists can be seen as falling into two broad camps: individualistic and communal anarchists. While sharing some […]
This fits with The American Conservative‘s description Obama as a Nixon Republican. By Paul R. Pillar Consortium News President Obama is what might be called a “closet realist” who often pounds his fists upon the table while shaking hands under the table. He has to pull off this […]
In this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins welcome Andrew Gavin Marshall for a discussion of his recent podcast on “Anarchy, Socialism and Free Markets.” We talk about anarchism as a philosophy and what it really entails, as well as how […]
This is an interesting critique of the neo-reactionary movement by social scientist Scott Alexander, who also postulates the emergence of a libertarian “Grey Tribe” as a third force beyond the “conservative” Red Tribe and the “liberal” Blue Tribe. Alexander is very much in the progressive camp, although not […]
The New Reaction by Rachel Haywire Arktos Media, 66 pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Keith Preston Rachel Haywire’s The New Reaction is a collection of fifteen relatively short writings offering amusingly iconoclastic bits of cultural criticism from the perspective of someone with a well-developed […]
An interesting new work by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 19 (Winter 2015) [PDF] The Cult of Mass, Lionization of Protest Culture & Other Industrial Age Holdovers Protest Culture. The so-called “cargo cults” of New Guinea, Micronesia and […]
And we’ll never ditch foreign intervention as long as we have this government. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Why should advocates of limited government support a non-interventionist foreign policy? This web site was founded some 20 years ago by libertarians perplexed and disturbed at the sight of ever-expanding government […]
Another “ally” that needs to go. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com While the Israel lobby is blanketing the US media with propaganda to the effect that Iran cannot be trusted to adhere to the terms of any agreement limiting its nuclear research and development, back in Tel Aviv Bibi […]
It’s time the US gave these Bronze Age douchebags the toss. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Let’s get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom’s invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: “A brazen […]
While approximately 70% of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty, the “freest nation on earth” and “symbol of democracy” remains one of the world’s leading executioner states along with China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea, Cuba, Indonesia, the oil fiefdoms of the Persian Gulf, […]
In other words, the largest corporations basically have the same amount of power as the world’s 200 or so individual nation-states. So saith that great commie magazine, Forbes. Bruce Upbin Forbes.Com Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing […]
Realistically speaking, is this not a more apt description of “actually existing capitalism” than the idyllic Randian kind pushed by the “vulgar libertarians”? “A “choice” between: > Scumbags R’ Us > Criminals Incorporated > The Devil Himself Ltd. > Worldwide Sociopathic Enterprises, LLC. > Evil Scum Industries > […]
Contrary to the claims of this vulgar libertarian piece, yes, they do. This article is a reminder of why libertarians need a better to economics than Ayn Rand’s recycling of Social Darwinism. “A key claim of the partisans of this view–who originally called themselves Progressives–is that large corporations […]
By Mark Lutter Foundation for Economic Education The 20th century was an era defined by the clash of ideologies. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. As adherents mobilized armies, the implicit assumption was that to be correct was to be universalized — by force if necessary. My ideology is the best, […]
By Michael Graczyk Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press , is a note from Oklahoma City comber Timothy McVeigh to his defense team. The note, saying “This is the FBI! Do not Panic! We are currently ramming tanks into your house to inject CS gas. Send out […]
By Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel An Iraqi officer planned Islamic State’s takeover in Syria and SPIEGEL has been given exclusive access to his papers. They portray an organization that, while seemingly driven by religious fanaticism, is actually coldly calculating. Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. […]
The Big Think Editors BigThink.Com Don’t get Slavoj Žižek wrong. The famous philosopher, featured on Big Think last week in an interview about political correctness, doesn’t find fault in being polite or respecting people who are different. He does not advocate for hate. He agrees a state of political correctness is better than open […]
Is a split emerging among the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahabist axis between the Atlanticist wing and the Israeli-Saudi wing? By Pat Buchanan Taki’s Magazine At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is […]
By Jesse Rosenfeld The Daily Beast The U.S. relationship is informal amid a tangled roster of Kurdish warriors, but the PKK troops are too good to ignore. MATARA, Iraq — On the volatile front lines facing the so-called Islamic State outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, American […]
This is an interesting comment from this article: “It was not long ago when the attitude towards conspiracy theories was mainly mocking. Now they are perceived as a national threat and they are compared to terrorism and Nazism: France has already set a dangerous precedent by beginning to block web sites […]
This video is mostly a silly attack on national-anarchism, but it’s worth watching because of a speaker that appears off-camera at 39:13 in this. The speaker specifically attacks anti-imperialists for not conforming to Western standards of what an anti-imperialist movement should be, and simultaneously attacks Western radicals for […]
By Paul Mason The Guardian Supporters of the Pirate party in Germany. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters With just 22 days to go until the election starts, like many social media addicts I am wondering just how much more Official Political Tweeting I can take. Politics with a small p […]
The specific organizational forms that the growing third wave of anarchist movements will eventually assume is still being debating. Might the example of the Pirate Party and its rapid growth be a potential model to draw on? By Jordan Minor Geek.Com Like the lawless, ruthless, anarchists they were, […]
In his recent interview of yours truly, Michael Enoch Isaac pointed out that the anarcho-Marxist social justice warriors have come to represent totalitarian humanism in its idealized Platonic form and, as I have said before, they play the same role to the totalitarian humanist establishment as the Red […]
An interesting critique of orthodox libertarianism from a Marxist perspective by a U.K. economics student. Unlearning Economics I have only really just started studying Marxism in depth (though I am stopping short of Capital for now). Subsequently, while reading Bertell Ollman‘s Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a […]
This man, and not Rand Paul, is the logical successor to Ron Paul as the leading figure in the anti-state movement. Listen to the interview here.
By Sheldon Richman Reason Understanding history as best we can is important for obvious reasons. It’s particularly important for libertarians who want to persuade people to the freedom philosophy. In making their case for individual freedom, mutual aid, social cooperation, foreign nonintervention, and peace, libertarians commonly place great […]
By Keith Preston The Libertarian Alliance I think we can interpret this stuff with either a grand narrative or a focused narrative, depending on what direction we want to go. I would agree that the fanatical political correctness we see coming from the cultural Left today is traceable […]
An interesting discussion of Dugin’s ideas from Canadian television. Vladimir Putin’s name is known throughout the world. Alexander Dugin’s name, not so much. But to people in the know, Alexander Dugin is a very important name, as the Russian public intellectual says what Putin thinks. The Agenda examines […]
By Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagne Antiwar.Com Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year’s election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or […]
by Anonymous No word has done more to spark both disgust and delight than the word “revolution.” For libertarians, this is no exception. Oftentimes, the word conjures up memories of storming the Bastille, the Jacobin Terror, the firing squads and gulags of the Soviet Union, the anti-Western Third […]
Mike Enoch Isaac and I spent two hours triggering just about everyone. Listen to the interview here at TheRightStuff.Biz
“The modern social justice movement launched on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Jezebel, Slate, Huffington Post, et al. is far more reminiscent of a Red Scare (pick one) than the Civil Rights Movement.” By Aristotelis Orginos Medium.Com Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as […]
The Daily Kos Republican Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson appeared on The Ed Show where he spoke about President Obama’s unprecedented agreement with Iran. Wilkerson, unlike most Republicans and quite a number of Democrats, was able to see what the agreement if fulfilled would mean. “Ed I don’t normally codify […]
The voice of the ruling class makes makes the empire’s intentions clear. By Robert Parry BillMoyers.Com If two major newspapers in, say, Russia published major articles openly advocating the unprovoked bombing of a country, say, Israel, the US government and news media would be aflame with denunciations about […]
My response to this piece: There are multiple problems with this writer’s claims. First, Rand Paul can hardly be taken at his word. If anything, he’s below average when compared with other politicians in terms of consistency. Second, presidents are largely figureheads who preside over the implementation of […]
It must be a good thing. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Flickr The Kissinger/Shultz piece from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal makes the best case I’ve seen yet against making a deal with Iran – one that doesn’t rely on apocalyptic rhetoric or fantasies about the efficacy of […]
By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Paul Pillar puts the Iran hawks’ alarmist claims about an Iranian “march of conquest” in perspective: The main fact on this subject is that Iran hasn’t been doing anything close to the country-gobbling, capital-controlling, instability-creating stuff in the Middle East that it […]
Do not stand with Rand. “Whereas Paul told me back in 2013 that he hoped to make “audit the Pentagon” as popular a rallying cry as his father Ron Paul did “audit the Fed,” he’s now proposing $190 billion in spending increases for defense over two years, but claims fiscal conservative […]
“He has plainly adjusted his views on defense spending, foreign aid and on the threat posed by Iran. This is a good thing as it shows Paul has the capacity to learn from experience. This sets him apart from our current president, who like Paul, was a freshman […]
YES! By Thomas Knapp Garrison Center/Libertarian Alliance Once upon a time (not that long ago), the west’s colleges and universities were its centers of political dissent and incubators of cultural change. From dress and speech codes to musical trends to the defining issues of the day, students — often with the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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