Two Payments, More Payments, Higher Payments, or No Payments? by Laurence M. Vance June 5, 2024 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is often confused with Social Security. Although both programs are administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA), ...
Border Tyranny by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2024 Libertarian advocates of immigration controls always focus solely on the issue of immigration controls and never on the police state that comes with them. ...
How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech by John W. Whitehead May 31, 2024 “Politicians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it ...
Time to Separate Piety and Politics by James Bovard May 29, 2024 The First Amendment of the Constitution specifies, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In ...
Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs by Laurence M. Vance May 28, 2024 Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump ...
A Nanny State Idiocracy by John W. Whitehead May 24, 2024 “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, ...
A Century of Immigration-Control Failure by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2024 On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol was established “for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. In 1925 its duties were expanded to patrol the seacoast.” If there is anything everyone in the ...
Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2024 In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction. However, given their blind allegiance to the former president, what they are unable to see is that Trump is largely responsible for his own woes in the New York proceeding. Moreover, while ...
Will the U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine Lead to Nuclear War? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2024 When U.S. officials began using NATO to move eastward toward Russia’s borders after the ostensible end of the Cold War, their aim was to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. Their hope was to embroil Russia in a forever war with Ukraine that would “degrade” Russia by bringing about the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian troops. By funneling U.S. weapons to Ukraine, ...
A National Home with a Government-Owned Front Door? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2024 Advocates of immigration controls oftentimes use the concept of a front door of a person’s home to justify their support of immigration controls. They say that since a homeowner has the right to determine who comes into his house, the government should have the authority to decide who comes through the “front door” of our national home. The problem, however, is that they ...
Subjective Value and Consumer Sovereignty May 30, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss basketball star Caitlin Clark's salary of $79,000 in ...
The Immorality and Destructiveness of Occupational Licensure May 23, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the negative ramifications of occupational licensure. Go to the ...
A Gold Standard vs. the Denationalization of Money May 16, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss which monetary policy would be better--a gold standard ...
Our Discovery of Libertarianism May 9, 2024 In this week's Libertarian Angle, Richard and I talk about our personal journeys toward the discovery of ...