I am on the board of the Austin-based Foundation for a Free Society, and one of our objectives is to put out professional, artistic, catchy videos that communicate the philosophy of liberty in a succinct and fun manner. This video is one of our latest projects and was recently featured on LewRockwell.com. If you think [...]
Do More Guns Lead to Less Crime?
October 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
Last week, an AK-47-wielding student caused a major scare on the UT campus. He ultimately killed himself in the library. Fortunately, no one else was hurt. That same day, the Libertarian Longhorns and UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus were scheduled to host John Lott, famed author of More Guns, Less Crime, to speak [...]
The Freedom to Move
July 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This classic essay was originally written by Oscar Cooley and Paul Poirot, and is excerpted from a pamphlet originally published by FEE in 1951. Can we hope to explain the blessings of freedom to foreign people while we deny them the freedom to cross our boundaries? Freedom of movement underlies the concept of private property [...]
New Copyright Rules Released
July 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Intellectual property, especially copyright and patents, is purely fictitious, a construction of the State. Stephan Kinsella has definitively proved such in his paper Against Intellectual Property. Nevertheless, the US government continues to prop up this inefficient and unethical practice. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many lives have been ruined by the bad side of [...]
Tax Slavery Sucks
June 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. The memes were originally authored by Pete Eyre and Anja Hartleb-Parson, and were intended as means of communicating ideas about liberty in catchy and succinct [...]
Nonaggression and Self-Ownership, Thin and Thick Libertarianism
March 20, 2010 By 1 Comment
Among libertarians, self-ownership is generally held to be a moral absolute. Under this view, it is not permitted ever that one person may be owned by someone else, even if he should attempt to sell his body voluntarily. The nonaggression principle and the self-ownership principle may be seen as equivalent or one may be seen [...]
Communism Kills
January 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).
Voluntary Slavery
May 28, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Foundations of Rights and the Capitalism of Law
March 26, 2009 By 5 Comments
In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]
The Nature of Ethics
March 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
