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Balancing Liberty and Security Is a Never-Ending Challenge
Every few days, we learn yet one more way in which government’s expanded surveillance powers intrude upon our privacy and civil liberties. Last week, it was the revelation that spy agencies in the...
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Libertarianism is More Than Anti-Statism
There is a growing division among libertarians regarding the relationship between our fervent commitment to anti-statism and other principles we might hold regarding social and cultural issues. This...
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Bundy, the Senecas and Fighting for Sovereignty
In 1997, New York state declared war on the Seneca Nation reservations located upstate near Tonawanda. The war was over a declared power of the state to impose taxes on goods sold on native...
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Economic Progress and the Primacy of the Individual
Members of an Austrian School of economics forum to which I belong have been discussing the source of economic progress. It began with the usual elements of capital, technological development, and...
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Scarcity, Monopoly, and Intellectual Property
A Libertarian Critique of Intellectual Property. By Butler Shaffer. Mises Institute, 2013. 62 pages. Few topics in recent years have aroused as much interest among libertarians as intellectual...
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The Big, Bad Market: A French Psychosis?
There is a cliché according to which the French are genetically against classical liberalism and free-market economics. However, that wasn’t always the case. At the end of the 19th century and the...
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Democracy, War, and the Myth of the Neutral State
Edtor’s Note: This is a selection from “The Problem of Security: Historicity of the State and ‘European Realism’” found in the collection The Myth of National Defense edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The...
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America Matters: Leadership, Vigilance, Collaboration
The second verse in our treasured song, “America the Beautiful,” reminds us of our noble history and beckons us to reawakening the nation: O beautiful for pilgrim feetWhose stern, impassioned stressA...
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America’s Mission: Eradicating Discrimination, Prejudice, Racism
The immortal words authored by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence honor America and all who cherish freedom, liberty, and human dignity. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that...
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