The last 60 seconds of this documentary is a bit off, but 99% of it is spot on and demands attention. The cost of an American college eduction was once “well worth the cost.” It no longer is (for a vast majority of reasons). The promises of $1M more in aggregate salary over a person’s […]
Philosophy
Items that cover cover the reasoning behind the libertarian perspective but may not contain explicit policy measures.
Eliot Spitzer and Sophistry
In Ancient Greece sophists were teachers who taught virtue, which in those days generally meant the art of statesmanship, to young men rich enough to afford their services. Sophistry, as their art was called, is a trade much criticized in the dialogues of Plato, where Socrates attacks not only the practice of teaching for a […]
A “Right” To Health Care?
A right to something implies no one can legitimately take it from you or prevent you from enjoying that right. Thus a right to something means you are justified to use force to defend it. For example you have a right to your life, so if someone attacks you or threatens your life you can […]
The Individual vs. The Collective
This article makes an important point that leftists and big government Repubs don’t get. The choice is not that we are all in it together or we are all individuals who refuse to work together. Rather the choice is, are we all coerced as a group or do you voluntarily associate as free independent individuals? […]
“Defending the Constitution” by Jack Hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omXS-Spo3W0&feature=feedu
“Conservatives’ Military-Industrial Complex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPg_grOBFo&feature=feedu
On Latin American Politics and Ending the War on Drugs
The second half of this video addresses the benefits of legalizing drugs on the violence in Latin America. The point that prohibition only tends towards more violence created by a fight for market share by the various underground organizations in the black market is certainly a legitimate point that should be enough to convince any […]
Jack Hunter on Secession and the Liberal Mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrJ2DGWftsM&feature=sub
Sheldon Richman
This is the man who convinced me of rightness of libertarianism roughly 6 years ago.