November 10, 2014
During the Vietnam War, a U.S. major justified bombing and shelling civilian areas in Bến Tre by saying “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” This statement evolved into the […]
October 30, 2014
As Halloween approaches, many of us play with one of humanity’s most primal emotions: fear. We go to haunted houses, watch horror movies, and generally seek thrills, terror, and shocks. Fear can […]
October 12, 2014
When talking about student activism, one piece of advice is usually stressed for libertarians who are also anarchists: don’t talk about anarchism. “You already agree with minarchists on most things, so why […]
September 29, 2014
As President Obama has admitted since long before entering politics, he’s done his fair share of illegal drugs. In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, he wrote that he’d used marijuana […]
September 26, 2014
For nearly a century, many libertarians have seemingly forgotten many issues their 19th century forerunners talked about. One of the most crucial topics was feminism, which gets a bad rap in most […]
September 15, 2014
In response to increasing levels of expatriation over the past few years, the United States government has hiked the fee to denounce citizenship by a whopping 422%. From now on, if you […]
September 11, 2014
There’s been a lot of talk recently about de-militarizing the police. That’s good, and a lot of the ideas for reform are steps in the right direction[1]. However, what these proposals […]
December 11, 2012
David Clement is a Campus Coordinator at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Over the past decade, Canada has seen itself rise on the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World index. In […]
May 25, 2012
While I found Casey Given’s recent post to be timely and interesting, I have to worry about the claim that moralistic arguments for freedom should be abandoned. I’d agree that it’s not […]
October 17, 2011
One of my goals going into this semester was to engage in a good deal more civil disobedience. Now, I certainly don’t think that any activism of this sort is good for […]