May 30, 2016
If You Love Freedom, Thank an Anarchist
It’s often said – particularly on holidays like Veterans Day and Memorial Day – that Americans owe their freedom (such as it is) to u.s. military veterans. This claim has…
Posts filed under war
December 11, 2015
Donald Trump, John Locke, and Religious Toleration
Donald Trump has recently said, in a variety of forums and using a a variety of verbal saltados, that people who believe in Allah, the Muslim version of God, should…
May 17, 2015
Gun Rights
When is it permissible to forbid a person from owning a gun? We’ve talked about gun rights and self-defense around here before, so I thought I would draw your attention…
February 26, 2015
On Attacking ISIS
Libertarians are rightly skeptical of military interventions. A simple reason is that military interventions tend to do more harm than good. This simple reason was enough to justify opposition to the…
November 12, 2014
The Jailhouse Theory of International Relations
Tesón’s reaction to my post reminds of me of this: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk&w=560&h=315] It’s wrong in the way Jessup’s speech is wrong. We might need some men on some walls, but we…
September 11, 2014
QED
Given: a) That politics is a violent business in a fallen world; b) That it is conducted by a mixture of good and bad actors with good and bad motives…