Classical Liberalism

  • Are Lockdowns an Election-Year Ransom Note?

    “Yet again raises a question about the why behind the continued limits placed on people, schools and businesses. They’ve never made sense in consideration of how thankfully rare death (or even serious illness) has been as a consequence of the virus, especially in recent weeks.” ~ John Tamny

    Are Lockdowns an Election-Year Ransom Note?
  • What’s Gone Wrong with Left-Liberalism and Lockdowns?

    “It is my hope to convince the liberal/left that our principles, which ostensibly entail concern for minorities and the poor, working and middle classes, and which recognize the importance of human liberty and dignity, should lead us to abhor lockdowns. At the very least, the fact that discussion on the subject is considered off-limits should…

    What’s Gone Wrong with Left-Liberalism and Lockdowns?
  • Quartering and its Importance to the American Revolution

    “Quartering imposed a serious burden on local populations, especially laborers and poorer households. Its incidence is harder to measure than that of stamp, sugar and tea taxes. However, it is probably one of the most underappreciated major causal factors of the American Revolution.” ~ Vincent Geloso

    Quartering and its Importance to the American Revolution
  • Faceless Nation

    “With one of the two major presidential tickets joined in demanding a mandatory mask rule through Election Day and beyond, this election has become a test of the face of a nation.” ~ George Gilder

    Faceless Nation
  • Happy Birthday to Libertarian Firebrand Walter Block

    “His positions can be very, very off-putting. He strips pretty much everything down to a simple question: ‘Is it voluntary?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ then he argues that we have no right to interfere no matter how much we might disapprove.” ~ Art Carden

    Happy Birthday to Libertarian Firebrand Walter Block
  • Stop Tearing Down Statues. Use Them to Tell the Story of American Liberty.

    “It is time that we confront our paradoxical history of personalities, beliefs, and institutions, telling a story of continued struggle to manifest a civic inheritance of individual liberty and human dignity. A struggle marked with failure, but which we hope will continue to bear fruit for the good of humankind.” ~ James L. Caton

    Stop Tearing Down Statues. Use Them to Tell the Story of American Liberty.
  • Reform the Supreme Court? Read the Federalist Papers

    “Senator Harris and her Progressive allies would do best for the country to attempt to restore respect and understanding of the Supreme Court, not undermine it by turning it into another political game. What’s at stake is a carefully crafted legal system that stands between a free society and tyranny from the few as well…

    Reform the Supreme Court? Read the Federalist Papers
  • Don’t Live Your Life In a Bubble

    “If you want a future, your generation needs to start getting the best minds behind leading. Your future and the future generations of humans now depend on it.” ~ Roger W. Koops

    Don’t Live Your Life In a Bubble
  • “Systemic Racism” Theory is the New Political Tribalism

    “A freedom not based on race, nationality, language, or religion, but on an idea of the unique and valued individual who is at liberty to live his own life, peacefully in voluntary mutual association with others. A society that, more than any other, has done more to do away with the tribe and liberate the…

    “Systemic Racism” Theory is the New Political Tribalism
  • Your State Matters More Than You May Think

    “While employment regulation may seem like a long way from communism, the point is that the federal government does not stand on the slope at all, regardless of subjective perceptions of its slipperiness. The safety ropes that remain at its disposal, like the interstate commerce clause, are only as effective as the will and skill…

    Your State Matters More Than You May Think
  • Save America from Cancel Culture

    “All possible effort must be made to resist and rationally respond to a “cancel culture” that would erase the history and memory of America from the minds of humankind.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

    Save America from Cancel Culture
  • Rothbard’s Challenging History of the Revolutionary War and the Constitution

    “In short, one does not have to share Rothbard’s opinion about the undesirability of the Constitution to find his interpretation of what actually happened illuminating. Whether you think that the Constitution was a mistake, that it was a good idea, or that it didn’t do enough to empower government, you will still encounter reliable, engaging,…

    Rothbard’s Challenging History of the Revolutionary War and the Constitution