The Left wages its own battle against sin in North Carolina. This article is actually a very good illustration of a point I’ve made before about pan-secessionism and anarcho-pluralism. Some perceive these concepts as creating situations where particular sets of cultural, economic, or political values are written in […]
This is just too damn funny. With intellectual opponents like these, we’re almost certain to win. Bob Garfield Slate.Com Illustration by Mark Stamaty Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a […]
For those of us who came of age during the heyday of the War on Drugs during the 80s and 90s this is like members of the Nazi Party writing a letter to Hitler urging a relaxation of the Nuremberg Laws. Russia Today In a signed letter issued […]
So say the reactionary leftists at Slate.Com On Tuesday, the Kansas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure designed to bring anti-gay segregation—under the guise of “religious liberty”—to the already deep-red state. The bill, written out of fear that the state may soon face an Oklahoma-style gay marriage […]
The drug war. We often here about how this or that Republican politician is a “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning” or a “friend of liberty.” In the vast majority of the cases (if not all of them) said Republican politician supports the war on drugs. Oh, some of them may […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “[E]verywhere, “time is winding up,” in the words of one of our spirituals, “corruption in the land, people take a stand, time is winding up.”—Martin Luther King Jr. We now live in a two-tiered system of governance. There are two sets of laws: […]
Advocates for Self-Government Last issue we brought news of an amazing survey by FreedomWorks that found libertarianism rising rapidly, especially among the young. Here’s more great news along those lines. First, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute — a nonpartisan group that studies religion, values, and public life […]
By Matt Parrott Traditionalist Youth Network Some guy named Todd Lewis strongly disliked my recent Counter-Currents article, Weird Science: Liberal Creationism vs. Christian Creationism. His response, hosted at the otherwise praiseworthy Attack the System anarchist website, Contra Parrott: The Emptiness of Third-Way Anthropology, was absolutely riddled with scathing insults. While […]
This is actually more nuanced than what might be expected. Property and Freedom Society 2013 Conference
It would be interesting to see how our “left-libertarian” rivals respond to this. The nature of the totalitarian humanist revolution as a form of censorious persecution is made clear in Dr. Gabb’s presentation, and it is also demonstrated that the totalitarian humanists are not necessarily the sexual libertines […]
This will be a exercise in the reduction ad absurdum and a response to a couple of articles by Matt Parrott at Counter-Currents.com (CC).
By Matt Parrott I’m a bit old for Bill Nye. By the time his children’s science show came on in the early ’90′s, I had already graduated to reading Carl Sagan’s more advanced presentation of the vapid and vacuous “I Fucking Love Science!” worldview. My love of critical […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance Review Article by Sean Gabb Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century Keith Preston Black House Publishing Ltd, London, 2013, 473pp, £16.50 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-9927365-0-7 I first came across Keith Preston in October 2008. In those […]
One thing I continue to be impressed by is the diversity of opinion even among self-proclaimed libertarians and anarchists. There seems to be everything from “libertarian white supremacists” to “libertarian radical leftists” to “libertarian monarchists” to “libertarian Marxists” and everything in-between. It also seems there is no agreement […]
Attack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
By Anthony Gregory The generation of libertarians seen in such outfits as SFL excites and encourages me. I especially approve its efforts to cleanse the movement of the type of bigotry that emerged after years of the libertarian movement’s circumstantial alliance with conservatives to battle against New Deal […]
By Max Borders Truth carries within itself an element of coercion. —Hannah Arendt Identity politics has come to the freedom movement. But does it fit? Many newly minted libertarians have come out of America’s indoctrination factories feeling a mix of guilt and sanctimony. They’re still libertarians, but they […]
Attack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
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By Stephan Kinsella Like everyone, my political and ethical views have evolved over time. From a somewhat racialist milieu in rural Louisiana, I consciously rejected racism when I was in my young teens. From a devout Catholic youth I became a secularist and freethinker at a fairly young […]
PolicyMic.Com Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population When we talk about the war on drugs, which is increasingly turning into a real war, we often overlook the fact that the “criminals” involved in the drug trade aren’t actually violating anyone’s rights. […]
The Independent Kansas state sues Marotta for $6,000 in child support for four-year-old girl Heather Saul William Marotta, of Topeka, Kansas, had argued that he had waived his parental rights and did not intend to be a father to the child, who is now four-years-old. He said he […]
By Justin Raimondo We haven’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam war era: an administration caught red-handed illegally and systematically spying on Americans in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war. At that time, too, the political class was badly divided, with the hard-liners circling their wagons […]
Is Putin gearing up the lead the resistance of traditional societies to Western liberal imperialism? Article by Matt Parrott James Kirchick, writing for Foreign Policy, rather accurately describes how Russia is creeping deeper and deeper into fulfilling Alexander Dugin’s vision for her as the world’s savior from American cosmopolitanism . . . The […]
By Daniel McCarthy I recently reviewed Paul Gottfried’s Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America for the University Bookman. Paul responds to my review here. Note that in addition to Paul’s book being available as an affordable paperback, the Kindle edition is now going for just $12.49—if […]
By Jesselyn Radack While the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden‘s dissemination of National Security Agency information continues, members of Congress, journalists and advocacy groups keep repeating the same argument: Mr. Snowden should turn himself in, mount a solid defense and all will be righted at trial. That’s a fantasy. […]
An excellent critique of atheist fundamentalism. By Robert M. Price “My disagreement with religion and religious people is, I hope, a gentleman’s disagreement. As a humanist, I cannot despise the cultural fruits of religion, including the art, literature, music, and even the fascinating theology it has given rise […]
For the new year, I have a dream…. A.D. 2014, and it seems obvious that the highfaluting notion of “progress” remains almost purely a technological phenomenon. Whilst the denizens of Slave Britannia cow under the yoke of political correctness and media censorship, those further south of the sphere […]
Watch the video. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed it would be “enlightening” for National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and intelligence director James Clapper to “share a prison cell,” noting “the law has to be applied equally.”
By Sibel Edmonds When It Comes to Whistleblowing, Integrity & Purity of Intentions Matter MostA week ago I began writing a series of commentaries on significant consequences and conflicts of interest associated with Glenn Greenwald, his new PayPal billionaire boss, and the ownership and commoditization of the 50,000-page […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale There is one and only one conclusion that I should think everyone alive during this last year of sequester and shutdown and gridlock and Obamacare, and unprecedented government intrusion, would come to is this: the government we have in this country is too incompetent, […]
By Laurence Vance It happens every time I even mention religion in an article or blog post. Some libertarian atheists get so upset. Today I was referred to the work of the atheist George Smith, something I was already familiar with. For an introduction to Smith, here is […]
By Walter Block 1. Check this out on the feminists, at least those in India responsible for this horrid video. There has been a spate of horrendous rapes in this country. Do the feminists there come out against rape? Well, of course, some of them do, quite properly, […]
By Robert Wenzel The DC reports: The gay advocacy group that launched a pressure campaign to block comedian Bob Newhart from speaking at a Catholic summit is funded by progressive billionaire George Soros and has close links to President Obama’s new White House counselor, records reveal. Newhart, 84, pulled […]
By David McElroy It finally occurred to me over the weekend why I hate the responses of people on both sides of the Phil Robertson controversy. I would object to pretty much any reaction to what Robertson said — because paying attention to him at all is treating […]
Russia Today Censorship in American schools and libraries is on the rise as more institutions attempt to ban books tackling racial and sexual issues, as well as those written by minorities, according to the anti-censorship group Kids’ Right to Read Project. In a report by the Guardian, the […]
By Roderick Long I spent my last two years of elementary school in Idaho Falls, a town that was at that time 70% Mormon. In the public school the only Christmas songs that were permitted were purely secular ones with no religious references. I spent high school in […]
Russia Today NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have “no conception of privacy.” Snowden’s address aired by the UK’s Channel 4 […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan “Across Europe, globalism and transnationalism, as represented by the eurozone and EU, seem in retreat, as nationalism is resurgent. Now it is the UKIP, a new British independence party, which seeks to secede from the EU that is surging—at the expense of the Tories. […]
By Daniel McCarthy “Liberals are so politically inert that I don’t waste much time criticizing them. The Democratic Party, to the extent that it’s liberal, wins nationally because the GOP is a basket case. The hard left, which knows that Democrats are about as neoliberal as the GOP, […]
By Roderick Long When invisible-hand or spontaneous-order mechanisms are invoked in libertarian social theory, it is customarily as a benign alternative to state power. Yet there are reasons for thinking that state power itself likewise depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms.
Interesting discussion. By Bryan Caplan 12 Years a Slave is a great chance to feel morally superior to monstrous slavers of yore. But it is also a time to reflect: Will our descendents ever look back on us with contempt for our blatant wickedness? If so, what will […]
Raw Story Liberals tend to underestimate their similarity to other liberals, according to a recent study, while conservatives overestimate their similarities — and those differences may account for the relative political success of the tea party in comparison to Occupy Wall Street. While the tea party has grown […]
Forbes The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure. Those who support that war might recall Prohibition, a similar deployment of government paternalism, which was wisely repealed 80 years ago this month. Prohibition was the result of misnamed “temperance” crusaders who sought to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and […]
Disinfo.Com Do basic human rights extend to other animals with human-like cognitive abilities?The New York Times reports: Should a captive chimpanzee have the same rights as a “legal person”? That’s the debate set to unfold after an activist group filed lawsuits on behalf of four chimpanzees, asking the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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