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As political news is embroiled in congressional hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and sexual assault allegations made against him, Congress is also busy quietly passing staggering spending bills with bipartisan support. […]

Dear Libertarian, We are on a mission to elect more Libertarians to state legislatures! There are several candidates running in Western states, in races that are particularly opportune for us. To help them campaign as aggressively as possible, […]

By Shane Cory, former LNC executive director, 2005–2008 On Sept. 5, Stephen Gordon, lifetime member of the Libertarian Party, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 56. Including ballot access petitioners, managers and communications experts, […]

Libertarian Party voter registration has surged 92 percent in the last 10 years, according to Ballot Access News. The number of registered Democrats has declined 8 percent over that time, and Republican voter registration is down 5 percent. […]

Campaign season has arrived! Do you have all the Libertarian gear you need? LP Store is offering FREE shipping from now until the end of the month. Just use coupon code LP18 at checkout! The post FREE shipping at LP Store! appeared first on […]

Store shelves at a Publix supermarket in Winter Haven, Fla., before Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017.Photo by Andrew Heneen (CC BY 4.0). As Hurricane Florence reaches the eastern seaboard, people in the storm’s path have gathered […]

On Sept. 12, the New Mexico Supreme Court rejected a scheme by Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver to implement straight-ticket voting for ballots in the November election. The justices took less than three hours to render their […]

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 7 would eliminate capital gains taxes on most transactions conducted with precious metals. West Virginia Rep. Alex Mooney introduced the Money Metals Tax Neutrality Act, which was […]

Larry Sharpe and five other Libertarian Party (LP) candidates from New York will appear on the ballot this November, as the period to challenge their petitions has passed without interruption. From the press release issued by LP New York on […]

A recount for the second congressional district’s top-two primary race in Washington state confirms that Libertarian candidate Brian Luke has finished second, and will appear on the November general election ballot against incumbent Democrat […]

From "immigration, yes; welfare, no" to "welfare, whatever; immigration, no." […]

Will it stop toxic behavior or just encourage more demands for censorship? […]

The president was at the United Nations today […]

The president was at the United Nations today […]

They got plenty of attention, but that's about it. […]

Puerto Ricans are considered U.S. citizens, but many in the country argue that they lack adequate representation. […]

Ilya Vett claims he was making the gun as a "gift" for his brother. But he was still arrested and charged with attempted criminal possession of a firearm. […]

"For civil disobedience to be praiseworthy and serious, protestors must be willing to bear the costs of the then-extant sanctions." […]

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program is on the receiving end of yet another negative government watchdog report. […]

Dave Rubin tells John Stossel how he walked away from the left. […]

Dave Rubin tells John Stossel how he walked away from the left. […]

"It is advisable for toddlers to wear a helmet while in the playground because they can easily trip and fall." […]

Plus: Why is Latin America’s murder rate so high? […]

How a risk-averse bureaucracy across the ocean may decide what you say and do online. […]

You say you don’t live in the European Union? They don’t care. […]

The tech giant appears willing to do almost anything to win access to the vast Chinese market. […]

A French court has ordered right-wing political leader Marine Le Pen to undergo psychiatric evaluation for posting images online of violence committed by the Islamic State. She has been charged with disseminating images of violence that could be […]

The tech giant appears willing to do almost anything to win access to the vast Chinese market. […]

Here's the full Fox News interview with the SCOTUS nominee and his wife Ashley. […]

In many ways, the Sun’s decade-old coverage bears on issues and personalities in contemporary headlines. […]

In many ways, the Sun’s decade-old coverage bears on issues and personalities in contemporary headlines. […]

One has generated more wealth for more people than any other system ever tried, while the other has produced a long track record of failure, misery, and death. […]

Criminologist Gary Kleck debated Paul Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center, at the Soho Forum. […]

Reason's editors discuss the latest Brett Kavanaugh revelations, Rod Rosentein's fate, and how to recover basic norms of political discourse. […]

Jeff Sessions credits the dip to his tough-on-crime policies, but criminal justice groups say that's nonsense. […]

Questions about the Botham Jean shooting won't be going away anytime soon. […]

New FBI statistics for 2017 even show a small increase. […]

There are hardly any similarities between the 26-year-old suspect and the 53-year-old man who got arrested. […]

The PATRIOT Act fell out of fashion—but swap "human trafficker" for "terrorist" and let the civil liberties infringements roll! […]

Criminologist Gary Kleck debated Paul Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center. […]

Shop all books by Pat Buchanan Thursday is shaping up to be the Trump presidency’s “Gunfight at O.K. Corral.” That day, the fates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and much else, […]

A giant and ‘highly hazardous’ volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it could erupt on a scale that dwarfs the explosion that disrupted worldwide air travel eight years ago. Scientists have warned that Katla, a close neighbour […]

On September 17, I posted my column, “Evidence is no longer a Western value.” I used as an example the blame that has been put on Russia for the shot down Malaysian airliner. No evidence whatsoever exists for the accusation, and massive […]

libaba’s Jack Ma has warned that the ongoing US-China trade war could last at least 20 years. As we’ll see, it’s actually more like 30 – up to 2049, the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic […]

Bill Clinton and America ruled over Russia and Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s. Yeltsin showed little love for Russia and more interest in keeping power, and pleasing the oligarchs around him. Then came Vladimir Putin, and everything changed. Nearly […]

“The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business — ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power […]

“My biggest fear is a health crisis that will degrade my life, or that of a member of my family.” In response to my recent post on the brevity of life and the difficulty in making changes, I received an insightful response from […]

The Resistance didn’t quite hit it out of the park with Christine Blasey Ford. After all, how effective for the purpose of character assassination is a claim of “attempted rape” without even a when-and-where piece of the story? So […]

A review of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 by Saul Cornell (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). The Anti-Federalists who opposed ratification of the Constitution have not fared […]

The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century, by Paul Collins With this post, I will complete my review of Collins’ book. The Nuns Technically a secular canoness, not a cloistered nun; bound to […]

Shop all books by Tom Woods Now this is a story — yet you’ll scarcely hear it anywhere else. NYU’s Michael Rectenwald spent his life as a leftist — a self-described Marxist, in fact. But when on Twitter he began to turn […]

This week the House of Representatives will vote on a package of bills making the temporary tax cuts contained in last year’s tax reform bill permanent and making additional tax law changes. The bills will likely pass in the House, but will […]

How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing UsSteven PaysonLanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017, xiii + 372 pp. Steven Payson, the author of this provocatively title book, is a former career federal government economist who has the temerity to argue that […]

In the New York Times September 14, 2018, in an article "We’re Measuring The Economy All Wrong," the writer of the article David Leonhardt complains that despite strong gross domestic product (GDP) data most people don’t feel it. The […]

Among conservatives, Ronald Reagan is held in deific esteem. Find any Republican debate Bingo or drinking game, and his name is certain to be one of the triggers to take a drink. Even among many libertarians, Reagan is still viewed as one of our […]

No economic crisis and consequent recession hit when the lengthening of the stages in the productive structure, a process we studied in the last chapter, results from a prior increase in voluntary saving, rather than from credit expansion banks […]

There are labor shortages all over the country. There are not enough truck drivers, plumbers, food waitresses, construction workers, and so on. The official unemployment rate is below 4 percent. It was just reported private sector wages popped 2.9 […]

Elections are just around the corner in Bavaria, Germany’s largest and economically strongest state. On October 14, Bavarians will go to the polls to elect a new state government. One thing that is already sure is that the Left Party, […]

Volume 7, Number 2 (1985) Introduction and textual comments by Friedrich A. Hayek, translated by Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, Department of Economics of University College, Cork, written for Hella Hayek's 1931 German […]

On August 31, President Donald J. Trump signed the Executive Order on Strengthening Retirement Security in America, a preliminary step in allowing seniors more economic freedom and security in retirement. At present, there are many constrictive […]

As discussed previously, gun-control regulation has a track record of facilitating repressive political regimes. Countries like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cuba, and present-day Venezuela have witnessed how gun control has given their […]

"The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business — ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like […]

Democratic governments, almost all of them, are normally run by career pols. They have ravenous appetites for wealth. They almost always have big plans to expand the government, which means they always want more money. (I remember Hillary […]

We take a break from economics this week to welcome our old friend Jim Bovard for an unflinching look at the disastrous politicization of everything in America. The nasty fight over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation is only the latest […]

Only for a short while did the collapse of the Soviet Union silence Marxism. The fatal attraction of the thoughts of Karl Marx has returned — not because they are right but because they are wrong. Marxism serves to convert resentment into a […]

Today's headline at The Wall Street Journal looks wonderful: "U.S. Household Net Worth Neared $107 Trillion in Second Quarter." The journal is reporting on a new report from the Federal Reserve. Unfortunately, the fact that the aggregate […]

Volume 2, No. 1 (Spring 1999)   One of the most dependable ways of demonstrating the inconsistency of a general principle, theory, or proposition is to deduce some necessarily contradictory consequences from its major premises. In 1849, Gustave […]

We are constantly bombarded with bad news. There are disasters, dangers, challenges, and woes. On the political scene, we find perpetual discord peppered with lurid denunciations and shrill condemnations. Media reports are alternately dismaying, […]

Although students of Austrian economics are familiar with Mises, Hayek, and the other major figures of the school, there are many economists who worked in and around the Austrian tradition—and made crucial contributions to it—whose […]

Europe is today in the midst of a debate on the future of the European Union. It is not the first one: back before the Maastricht Treaty was passed in 1992, political leaders were discussing as well about where the EU, or as it was called back then, […]

The socialist policies of the Venezuela government continue to impose a living hell on its people. Hyperinflation has turned its currency to literal garbage. Mortality rates have skyrocketed for groups such as infants, pregnant mothers, and the […]

Volume 11, Number 2 (1995) I may, as a result of long endeavors to trace the destructive effect which the invocation of ‘social justice’ has had on our moral sensitivity, and of again and again finding even eminent thinkers thoughtlessly […]

The Federal Reserve’s changing of the guard — the end of Janet Yellen’s tenure and the beginning of the Jerome Powell era — has me remembering what it was like to grow up in the former Soviet Union. Back then, our local […]

As the fear of spies and traitors spread through the North, political arrests became commonplace, even in states as far north as Maine. Anybody expressing any anti-war sentiment would be assumed to be a traitor and a secessionist, and arrests were […]

[Prepared for delivery in Hamburg, Germany, upon receiving the Roland Baader Prize.] Thank you very much for the great honor you have conferred on me. The Roland Baader Prize is named for an outstanding champion of the free market and disciple of […]

From the introduction: Advancing social ideas that do not demand obedience or compliance requires far more personal patience than simply forcing others to comply via the political ballot box. The widely held idea that dicta and force can serve a […]

Free-market advocates are clear about what should be done about government services and operations: they should be privatized. While there is considerable confusion about how the process should be accomplished, the goal is crystal-clear. But apart […]

In order to gain insight into the future state of an economy, many economists refer to a variety of consumer and business surveys. Randomly selected consumers and businessmen are asked to provide their views about where the economy is heading. Thus, […]

Automation seems to be a never-ending source of fear-mongering. Judging from the commentary, robots will “replace us” and cause large-scale unemployment. With the entry of artificial intelligence (AI), and robots that make robots, the […]

In the midst of high winds and flooding as a result of Hurricane Florence, we hear of a truck driver who saved 53 dogs and 11 cats from flood waters. And then there is the case of a woman who saved 18 dogs from a flooded house and its fenced in […]

[Advocates for tariffs and trade controls often claim that tariffs are good "for everyone" because they ultimately lead to more production and wealth creation for everyone in the economy. In Chapter 2 of Theory and History, Ludwig von Mises notes […]

According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos survey, 70 percent of Americans, including about 50 percent of Republicans, support Medicare for all, the latest incarnation of single-payer health care. Republican support for a health plan labeled […]

Somehow, an all-star Hollywood cast created The Company Men (2010) and it got past the usual censors. The movie is an effective rebuttal to Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman. The recently-laid-off characters spend the movie living their lives […]

Financial media-administered history lessons — whether by commentaries or interviews — on the Great Crash that occurred 10 years ago are frightening. The would-be history teachers are in total denial (or ignorance) of the key fact that […]

The chief effect credit expansion exerts on the productive structure is ultimately that it discoordinates the behavior of the different economic agents. Indeed entrepreneurs rush to lengthen and widen the productive stages and make them more […]

One of most fascinating aspects of progressives (also known as “liberals”) is the blindness they display to the adverse consequences of their very own government programs. Instead of acknowledging what their statist programs do to people […]

The day Lehman went bankrupt I left the office in London for Waterloo Station and realized that something monumental had happened. The faces of the dozens of people waiting patiently for trains from the center to their homes were revealing. Most of […]

Volume 11, Number 2 (1995) IntroductionI. The Market vs. GovernmentII. The Structure and Goals of BureaucracyIII. Limiting Terms of Office in the Original American StatesIV. The Civil Service vs. Rotation in OfficeV. The United States Civil Service: […]

With Hurricane Florence making landfall in the Eastern United States, the usual reports of the “evils” of the private sector price gouging the poor, desperate people in the disaster zone tend to crop up. The economic arguments as to why […]

This weekend’s show features Jeff’s recent appearance on the radio show Turning Hard Times into Good Times hosted by Jay Taylor. They discuss the big picture aspects of the US economy—namely, what's going on civilizationally with […]

If you follow financial news related to Fed policy, you would have noticed a recent push for the use of “a new monetary tool,” called countercyclical capital buffers. Some prominent Fed officials and Fed watchers — the monetary […]

[Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Metropolitan Books, 2006. 242 pgs.] Critics of Roosevelt's New Deal often liken it to fascism. Roosevelt's […]

Arguably one of the rights that has seen less government encroachment in the US — in contrast to other activities such as commerce — gun rights are now witnessing unprecedented attacks at the state level and even from […]

Erik Prince, the owner of a series of mercenary firms originally known as Blackwater, wants to "privatize" the war in Afghanistan. And he wants you to pay him to do it. According to to the Military Times, "Prince ... believes a small footprint of […]

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Volume 2, Number 1 (1978) I The last several years have witnessed a remarkable outpouring of criticism of the American system of public education. While the usual attacks on the quality of the instruction, the character of the curriculum offerings […]

In the 1959 Broadway play, A Raisin in the Sun, an impoverished black family uses a substantial insurance payment to purchase a home in an affluent and white neighborhood. Perturbed by the fact that black people would move into their community, a […]

With former Republican presidential contender John C. Frémont now in charge of the Department of the West, the policies of Martial Law would be extended to the entire state of Missouri. Included in Frémont’s declaration of […]

In his speech on April 7 2010 at the Economic Club of New York the President of the New York Fed, William Dudley argued that asset bubbles pose a serious threat to real economic activity. The New York Fed chief is of the view that the US central […]

[This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of Human Action: The Scholar's Edition and is read by Jeff Riggenbach.]   "The boom is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse." The erroneous belief that the essential feature […]

After decades of warfare, the federal drug war has become a predictable cycle. Drug dealer, drug gang, or drug user busted. DEA agents celebrate the bust. Newspaper reporters laud the DEA. Defendants prosecuted, convicted, and sent to jail. And […]

In January of 1819, the New York City district attorney made his case against a man who allowed his pigs to roam the streets of the city, creating a nuisance. Although the attorney called no witnesses, he regaled the jury with horror stories about […]

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Just a thought... Sometimes I see posts on this sub that ridicule people who speak out against the actions of businesses. The truth is that sometimes businesses do shitty things. Sometimes, calling them out is worthwhile. Case in point is EA […]

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Space the Nation: R2-D2 is a Libertarian (and other opinions we have about Star Wars)  Syfy WireFull coverag […]

Libertarians file complaint over three Ohio governor debates  WHIOFull coverag […]

Libertarians file complaint over three gubernatorial debates  Springfield News SunLibertarians file complaint over three Ohio gubernatorial debates  WRAL.comFull coverag […]

Libertarian candidate working for politically marginalized, legalization of pot  The Topeka Capital-JournalFull coverag […]

John Nichols: Libertarians have earned a place at the debate table  Madison.comFull coverag […]

Hoping for a gold rush: Virginia Libertarian Party sees opportunity in Congressional races  Virginia MercuryFull coverag […]

Full video: Congressional Libertarian candidates meet with the Register  DesMoinesRegister.comFull coverag […]

Socialists and Libertarians Need an Alliance Against the Establishment  Foreign PolicyFull coverag […]

A Senator Gary Johnson could be good not just for Libertarians, but for the Senate too  The HillFull coverag […]

Q&A: Libertarian Party candidate for governor lays out how he'd fix New York state  Niagara GazetteFull coverag […]

Libertarian candidates swell ranks  Rocky Mount TelegramFull coverag […]

Land surveyor, attorney topping Libertarian ticket in MT's 2018 election  KBZK Bozeman NewsMontana's Libertarian ticket features a land surveyor and an attorney in the 2018 election  KTVQ Billings NewsFull coverag […]

Stamford's Rod Hanscomb takes the Libertarian route in governor's race  Westfair OnlineFull coverag […]

Libertarian candidate for governor still fighting for recognition in Michigan  MLive.comFull coverag […]

Libertarian Scott enters governor's race  Wilson PostFull coverag […]

'Stalwart defender of freedom': Montana Libertarian Party honor Corvallis man  Ravalli RepublicFull coverag […]

Libertarians Say Some Candidates Unfairly Excluded From Debates  WOSULibertarians: Some candidates unfairly excluded from debates  10TVFull coverag […]

Legal weed and decentralized education: Can a Libertarian win NY's gov race?  Syracuse.comLibertarian candidate calls for reform in drug laws, incarceration  WBFOFull coverag […]

Libertarian candidate for governor, Larry Sharpe visits Rochester  13WHAM-TVFull coverag […]

Libertarian Party threatens legal action against Ohio Debate Commission over exclusion from gubernatorial debate  cleveland.comNorthwest Ohio conservative PAC won't back DeWine for governor  Toledo BladeFull coverag […]