By: Gary D. Barnett “It is even harder for the average ape to think that he has come down from man.” |H. L. Mencken Here we are in the midst of hell on earth; all produced by the ruling class and their corrupt and criminal pawns in this government, and all the worthless masses can […]
Throughout the pandemic, governments have gained in power at the expense of society. The numerous laws voted and decrees revealed have significantly minimal individual liberties in lots of nations, despite the fact that from the beginning many doubts existed regarding the efficiency, the importance, and the authenticity of these draconian steps used to eliminate the […]
[The State] forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or alien.—Albert Jay Nock, 1928, On Doing the Right Thing LIBERTARIANISM AND THE STATE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT Libertarianism has proved to be a force […]
As the epochal struggle for Massachusetts began, it was clear that the majority of the people of the state opposed the Constitution. Furthermore, in contrast to Pennsylvania where the Federalists had the important advantage of recently acquired control of the state government, the story in Massachusetts was almost the reverse. For in 1787, in reaction […]
When the American colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, the fundamental principle underlying the new government they created was the principle of liberty. To the Founders, liberty meant freedom from government oppression, because at that time, government was the primary threat to the liberty of individuals. The Declaration of Independence contains a long […]
The libertarian creed emerged from the “classical liberal” movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world, specifically, from the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. This radical libertarian movement, even though only partially successful in its birthplace, Great Britain, was still able to usher in the Industrial Revolution there by freeing industry […]
By: Gary D. Barnett Today I got two letters from a reader that were at times exceptionally important and likewise complimentary. These kinds of responses are always confusing, and for the a lot of part indicated to oppose or criticize a position that I may take without scrutiny, however that is not how I run. […]
[This article is excerpted from chapter 17 of Human Action.] Males have picked the precious metals gold and silver for the cash service on account of their mineralogical, physical, and chemical features. Using money in a market economy is a praxeologically necessary reality. That gold– and not something else– is used as money is merely […]
ABSTRACT: Isaiah Berlin made the distinction between unfavorable liberty and favorable liberty. Ever since, popular modern theorists including Charles Taylor and Martha Nussbaum have actually stated negative liberty inadequate or incoherent. This is a critique of those statements, which have actually been unduly accepted to a large extent. The review mostly focuses on Taylor, who […]
