Preventing Tragedy – A Free Market Analysis of Abortion
Abortion is always a tragedy, and one of the saddest occurrences on this earth. Government ‘solutions’ are also always disastrous, and so it is...
Chainsaw Surgery: Using the State to Help the Poor
So you want to help the poor. After gazing at pictures of homeless men living in cardboard boxes under the shadows of skyscrapers, you’ve...
War, Profit and the State
It has been often said that war is the health of the State – but the argument could also be made that the reverse...
Welfare and the Argument from Morality
In my last article on www.lewrockwell.com, I used the argument from morality to approach the problem of health care. Today I would like to...
False Forgiveness
This weekend, my wife asked me my opinion of a particular chapter in a ‘self help’ book she was reading. I did so, and...
How Will We Win? (or: what will the weather be like in 2015?)
All freedom-lovers hunger for an answer to a basic and seemingly-essential question: when will we win? When will the headlong rush of State power...
The Argument from Morality in Action: The Right to Health Care
Those who have read my recent series of articles on LewRockwell.com know that I believe that libertarians can achieve great success by using the...
Forget The Argument From Efficiency
For three main reasons, freedom can never be won by arguing for economic efficiency. Such efficiency is always debatable, inevitably rests on technical details...
Freedom’s Failure: A Theory of Cause and Effect
By any objective standard, the freedom movement has, over the past fifty years – if not the entire history of mankind – been an...
The Argument From Morality (or, how we will win…)
At the end of my article “Forget the Argument from Efficiency,” I promised to write about the argument from morality – which is also,...
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