What Can Gold do for Our Money?

By Stefan Gleason One of the chief virtues of a gold standard is that it serves as a restraint on the growth of money and credit. It makes runaway government deficit spending and major monetary catastrophes such as hyperinflation practically impossible. Opponents of a gold standard can’t defend […]

Gary Johnson’s Pot Use Bugs Conservatives; John McAfee Would Rather Have Sex with Whales than Debate Again: Libertarian Party Roundup

By Brian Doherty Reason As Trump vs. Clinton looms horrifyingly on the horizon, normal human Americans seek any escape route, even one as outre as the Libertarian Party. That is, we’ve seen more chatter and news and commentary about the L.P.’s still ongoing-presidential race (which will be settled […]

America Needs Four Parties

All that it would take for the US to become a four-party rather than two-party state would be for Sanders to ultimately endorse Jill Stein of the Greens over Hillary, and for the anti-Trump Republicans to start an independent party of their own or make a run on […]

Keith Preston: US fighter jet makers fretting over possible scrapping of PG Arab deal’

Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/05/07/464471/US-jet-makers-worried Preston believes US fighter jet makers are fretting over losing revenue if they cannot sell jets to Persian Gulf Arab allies. US fighter jet manufacturers are concerned about the future of sales to America’s Persian Gulf Arab allies, which in part explains a […]

Left-Wing Paleolibertarianism

By Chris Shaw While my economic views put me on the trajectory of left-libertarianism, with my belief in wider, distributed ownership and the return of mutual aid associations and voluntary, even democratic, structures, I’ve always maintained a cultural conservatism in my outlook, coming from the ideas of Edmund […]

Keith Preston: Trump, Sanders ‘insurgents’ to US political system

Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/04/27/462876/Trump-Sanders-Clinton-Insurgency-Preston/ “What these two guys [Trump and Sanders] represent is a insurgency that is taking place on a class level,” Preston says. A deepening political fragmentation in US politics that stems from an ongoing war between different social classes in the country has given […]

Don’t Trust Trump on Foreign Policy

By Thomas Knapp The Garrison Center In March, an open letter from 121 Republican “national security leaders” characterized GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision as “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle,” swinging “from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.” While it’s always wise […]

Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?

Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities…but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm? Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist and one of the world’s leading climatologists, […]

Is Revolution Brewing?

By William S. Lind Traditional Right Virtually all the reporting about this fall’s presidential election focuses on the candidates and the question of who is going to win nomination and election. That is to be expected. But it misses what really matters. The likelihood that either the nominating […]

Is War by Assassination on its Way?

By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]

The Tyranny of Liberalism

An interesting debate between Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist Tom Woods and conservative Catholic traditionalist James Kalb. Listen here. Liberalism portrays itself as the ideology of liberty and liberation, as neutral between competing views of the good, and as the position all right-thinking people should adopt. None of this is true, […]

Borders Between the Anarchists

By Chris Shaw I’ve heard it contended that when it comes to a multiplicitous anarchist social order, where anarcho-communists and anarcho-capitalists could live side by side in their own distinct communities, such an order would be practically impossible due to ancoms refusing to recognise the existence of property […]

Rules For Libertarians

LibertarianHeathen.Com A practical guide for success, in the moment we have all been waiting for. By: Ryan Ramsey Chairman, Bradford County Affiliate State Executive Committee Representative, Region 4 Libertarian Party of Florida  Since 1971, Libertarians have dreamed of this day. The moment  enough members of the one party system’s […]

Preserve Culture, Preserve Liberty

LibertarianHeathen.Com Libertarians who feel the need to tear down American culture and values are not striking a blow to the state, but forging their own chains. Be a non-conformist, but leave everyone else alone. They will conform to the idea of leaving everyone else alone when we claim […]