 The War on Words (Big Brother 2003)
by Marcus Bachler
George Orwell was born exactly 100 years ago today and his masterpiece novel "1984" continues to be an influential best-seller. The nightmare vision of the novel is a description of the ultimate in repressive state control. This story is as relevant to the state politics of today as it has ever been. (Read more...)
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George W. Bush: Unintended Presidential Paragon?
by Scott D. DeSalvo
Scott pays tribute to our 43rd president. (Read more...)
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Martha Stewart versus the State
by Tibor R. Machan
Did Martha Stewart do anything morally or ethically wrong? (Read more...)
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 The Ministry of Wimmin's Affairs - Time to Go?
by Judith Collins
The NZ Ministry of Women's Affairs. Not as good as it sounds. (Read more...)
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The Nicotine-Nazis Are Coming
by Anton Kelly
Smokers get abused again. Anton Kelly objects. (Read more...)
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Passion, Principles and Party Poopers - Musings on the Knowledge Wave Conference
by Tim Sturm
A future leader gives the low-down on the "Knowledge Wave Conference". (Read more...)
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After the Iraq War
by Adam Reed
Enough time has elapsed from the recent US-British-Polish war on Saddam's Iraq to consider post-war evidence and current US policy. (Read more...)
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Double Shot
by Ashley Frazier
A tale of Starbucks and rights to the extreme. (Read more...)
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Addressing the Arguments of a Mayor
by Tibor R. Machan
The Mayor of Ft. Collins, CO, published a letter on his web site in response to a student who protested smoking ordinances and quoted me to indicate the problem with such laws. (Read more...)
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"Is Libertarianism Evil?" Revisited
by Scott D. DeSalvo
Scott takes exception to some of Joe's conclusions in his recent article. (Read more...)
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Look Who's Filming "Atlas Shrugged"
by Adam Reed
Ayn Rand saw human civilization perishing in an orgy of self-sacrifice, and wrote Atlas Shrugged to stop it - by taking morality away from the Christians, whose mythology was the source of the universal orgy of self-sacrifice that Rand meant to stop. (Read more...)
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Terrorism, Government and Security
by Tibor R. Machan
In light of the very real threat of more terrorism to come, targeting Western type institutions around the globe, there is a great deal of temptation to simply abandon various principles of the rule of law, especially due process, in the name of an effective response. (Read more...)
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Redevelopment, Democracy and Property Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
We have in and around the community where I live, just as do millions of others throughout the country and, indeed, the world, many public projects beloved by large numbers of people, often even the majority. These are often called "redevelopments" and are unabashedly destructive of the institution of private property rights by deploying, quite brazenly and arbitrarily, the eminent domain powers of government so as to take property from some and lease it to others who would "improve" it. Usually, the improvements involve some prettying up of strips of roadside or altogether reconstituting a business neighborhood so it looks presentable to those who drive by or stop there to trade. (Read more...)
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Wrong Take on Basic Human Rights
by Tibor R. Machan
Academia's notion of "rights". (Read more...)
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Praise for the Country’s "Safety Net"
by Craig Drayton
Craig sounds off on "Modern Art". (Read more...)
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So what is it With Liberty?
by Tibor R. Machan
Las Vegas, Nevada. At the annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education this year, there were about 200 participants and several dozens of meetings, come concurrent, some plenary, but the main question that kept coming up everywhere was roughly the same: Why is it so difficult to get people to realize that individual liberty is all around far better than government regimentation; (Read more...)
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The Age of Crap
by Lindsay Perigo
(Speech delivered to FSB Financial Services seminar, "Keeping in Touch," November 12, 2002.) (Read more...)
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A Free Iraq - If you can keep it
by Peter Cresswell
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Not true. Not everywhere. Not in Baghdad - not any longer. (Read more...)
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America Alone?
by Tibor R. Machan
It would not be the first time. Certainly, philosophically America has been nearly alone all its history (Read more...)
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Politicizing the Courts
by Tibor R. Machan
The idea is that the country was founded and continues to be organized on the basis of certain basic principles of justice that its constitution embodies. (Read more...)
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Treated Like Children
by Tibor R. Machan
Safety, when it is mindless, tends to be short-lived. (Read more...)
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Government and Anarchy: Some Preliminary Observations
by Russell Madden
A perennial source of tension and discussion in libertarian circles is the question of whether freedom would better be defended by anarchy or by a truly limited government. (Read more...)
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Saddam’s Succours, Part 2
by Lindsay Perigo
"I don't want food. I don't want water. I want my freedom." (Read more...)
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Can Industry Block Regulation?
by Tibor R. Machan
Well, in my book this last is all that would be necessary in a society in which adults are treated as, well, adults, not as babies. (Read more...)
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Saddam's Succours
by Lindsay Perigo
My words about them are few because few words are necessary. Two of Lenin's come to mind also -- "useful idiots." (Read more...)
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