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	05/22/13 - Moral Bias at The New York Times The headline said it all: "Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio." No mention of mendacity, of evil, of meanness, of vice. Nada. For liberals, their own ...

	05/20/13 - The IRS's Job Is To Violate Our Liberties "What do you expect when you target the President?" This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was ...

	05/15/13 - Back to Basics, Please In today's climate of political theatrics it isn't very easy to figure out where right stands versus wrong. As Ron Paul points out at The Daily Bell, the Benghazi fiasco pretty ...

	05/13/13 - What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage ...

	05/09/13 - Implosion: Patent Law Remains Troubled in the US Headlines have been trumpeting the Indian Supreme Court's decision to deny a new patent for the cancer drug Gleevec as an attack on intellectual property rights and a win for ...

	05/08/13 - More Environmentalist Confusions The New York Observer reported in its April 15, 2013, issue (B 1) that Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with Christie's in New York City to hold a "major philanthropic auction." ...

	05/03/13 - Iraq Readies for Civil War? 'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict... will be 'worse than Syria' ... The Sunni rise again: Uprising in Syria emboldens Iraq's minority ...

	04/29/13 - Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be ...

	04/24/13 - Public Choice Theory is Overlooked Whenever public officials promise to manage affairs of state, I am baffled how they fail to pay heed to public choice theory. This is the idea for which the late, great James ...

	04/15/13 - Why Can't We All Travel To Cuba? Earlier this month, entertainers Jay-Z and Beyoncé were given a license by the US government to travel to Cuba. Because it is not otherwise legal for Americans to travel ...

	04/10/13 - Public Museums and Censorship Is there a difference between censorship and selectivity? In a private gallery or museum the owners or curators must always be selective. There isn't infinite, unlimited room ...

	04/08/13 - Emulate Ron Paul This talk was delivered to the Alabama state convention of Young Americans for Liberty in Auburn, Alabama, on April 6, 2013. I've had the privilege of knowing Ron Paul for 37 ...

	04/08/13 - Homeschooling: The Future of Liberty A common feature of authoritarian regimes is the criminalization of alternatives to government-controlled education. Dictators recognize the danger that free thought poses to ...

	04/05/13 - The Stockman Backlash This week, while economists should have been closely considering the implications of the actual bankruptcy of Stockton, California, they instead heaped scorn on the perceived ...

	04/03/13 - Holding Your Nose for Principles One of the difficulties with standing on principle is that often one is defending them when they are practiced by bad people. Or when bad conduct is involved. In both kinds of ...

	03/25/13 - Welfare Rights are Wrong Ever since John Locke developed the theory of natural individual human rights, there has been an ongoing attempt to change his idea to something very different. For Locke the ...

	03/23/13 - I'm Keeping the Lights on for Earth Hour US News tells us that libertarians want to "keep the lights on" for the current Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), ...

	03/18/13 - The Rise and Fall of Military Keynesianism Has military Keynesianism come to an end? ... The outcome of the sequester ultimatum appears to have taken everyone by surprise. Two long summers ago, when the president and ...

	03/17/13 - Wendy McElroy on the Right to Pornography and The Art of Being Free The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Wendy McElroy. Introduction: Wendy McElroy is a prolific book author, columnist, speaker and contributor to ...

	03/11/13 - Revisiting Our Basic Rights Professor Lynn Hunt's recently published book on rights, titled Inventing Human Rights , is filled with a great deal of very useful, important information about the emergence ...

	03/10/13 - Tibor Machan on Individualism and Its Progress in the 21st Century The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present another interview with well-known libertarian philosopher Tibor R. Machan. Introduction: Tibor Machan is currently ...

	03/04/13 - The Sequester 'Crisis' And What Should Be Done Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as "sequestration" ...

	03/04/13 - Democracy and Gay Marriages Frankly I have no horse in this race, nothing personal in any case. For my money you may marry your grandmother or cat, if all parties consent. Marriages ought to be a matter ...

	03/04/13 - US Corporate State It didn't take long for opponents of the market to pounce after the events of 2008. The crash was said to prove how destructive "unregulated capitalism" could be and how ...

	02/26/13 - The Libertarian Public Interest A particularly irksome rhetorical ploy against the free society's champions is that they refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the public interest (or public good ...

	02/25/13 - When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers... While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust ...

	02/24/13 - Robert Wenzel on His Economic Policy Journal, Elite Memes and the Expanding American Empire The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robert Wenzel. Introduction: Robert Wenzel worked on Wall Street before founding his widely read ...

	02/21/13 - Self-Referential Paternalist Foibles Over the last several years, statists have changed their tune a bit. Instead of advocating Draconian governmental intrusions on people's lives, in the tradition of the Soviets ...

	02/18/13 - Down With the Presidency The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust ...

	02/11/13 - Why We Are Not 21st Century Libertarians The Luddites Among Us ... Certain economic ideas that are both logically wrong and unsupported by historical facts, and which have been known to be wrong for 250 years, are ...

	02/11/13 - Arrogance of Power! Just how utterly reliant on sheer power is President Obama can be appreciated from the fact that no one in his administration bothers to defend his policy of confiscating ...

	01/31/13 - On Rape and Pragmatism Something not often noted in the discussion of rape across the globe is that in an age that prizes pragmatism as opposed to firm principles of conduct, even rape can be excused ...

	01/17/13 - The Pitfalls of Public Spheres "Each fancies that no harm will come to his neglect..." – Thucydides Everyone has an incentive to use resources freely available to all... but none has a corresponding ...

	01/14/13 - My Recent Kafkaesque Experience It may not be the kind of experience many others have had other than at the Department of Motor Vehicles but I recently went through one that brought to mind Franz Kafka. I ...

	01/03/13 - Jettison the Constitution? Let's Give Up on the Constitution ... As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. ...

	12/27/12 - The Erosion of Our Freedom Often when I argue that governments must not violate our rights – they are supposed to be unalienable, after all – statists have a ready retort: Government is ...

	12/24/12 - Government Security is Just Another Kind of Violence The senseless and horrific killings last week in Newtown, Connecticut reminded us that a determined individual or group of individuals can cause great harm no matter what laws ...

	12/24/12 - Gun Control Obscenities When the massacre occurred in Connecticut, there was no call for commentary, certainly not from me who lives thousands of miles from where it occurred and knew none of the ...

	12/21/12 - The Astonishing Ron Paul As 2012 draws to a close, it's hard not to be reminded that 2013 will begin with Ron Paul retired from Congress. For all those years he was a fearless truth-teller, who exposed ...

	12/19/12 - Internalized Oppression Over the summer, my family and I went for a walk in the nearby woods. There is a shallow creek winding its way through a beautiful redwood forest and we thought it would be fun ...

	12/18/12 - Right to Work is Part of Economic Liberty Many observers were surprised when Michigan, historically a stronghold of union power, became the nation's 24th "Right to Work" state. The backlash from November's unsuccessful ...

	12/04/12 - Headed Toward the 11th Hour Compromise As the year draws to an end, America faces yet another congressionally-manufactured crisis which will likely end in yet another 11th hour compromise, resulting in more ...

	12/03/12 - What's a Real Libertarian? Here is the introduction to the new edition of For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto . There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but ...

	12/01/12 - Machiavelli and State Power As libertarianism has acquired a higher profile in American life over the past several years, the attacks on and caricatures of libertarians have grown almost as rapidly. ...

	11/24/12 - How Government 'Works' In the case of Egypt, people listened and obeyed − at least, as much as they did − because Pharaoh was, in theory, a god. In the case of Rome − with the ...

	11/22/12 - Another Effort to Void Our Basic Rights In this short essay I address an argument concerning welfare rights made against the late Robert Nozick by Adrian Bardon a while back. Bardon brings up an issue that's central ...

	11/20/12 - Secession: Are We Free To Go? Is all the recent talk of secession mere sour grapes over the election, or perhaps something deeper? Currently there are active petitions in support of secession for all 50 ...

	11/19/12 - PBS and NPR, America's Pravda and Izvestia It is a feature of American culture that's most upsetting, though hardly anyone makes much of it at all. Indeed, I know several avid defenders of the free society who make ...

	11/15/12 - Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I'll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36-year period. My goals in 1976 were the ...

	11/13/12 - In Praise of Price Gouging As the northeastern United States continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, we hear the usual outcry against individuals and companies who dare to charge market prices for ...

	11/12/12 - Perils of Originality At the outset I should confess that this may be something of a self-justification. I am not one whose ideas have been or have been meant to be original. At first this was just ...

	11/10/12 - To Romney and the GOP Elites: What Goes Around Comes Around On November 6th a large percentage of the Ron Paul supporters (10% of the GOP electorate) in the primary season exited the corrupt GOP voting process, stayed home, watched our ...

	11/08/12 - Reexamining Democracy Over the last several decades of American political life the idea of liberty has taken a back seat to that of democracy. Liberty involves human beings governing themselves, ...

	11/05/12 - The Logic of Entitlement Not long ago I woke up to the disturbing news from the Big Apple that some disgruntled ex-employee of the Empire State Building went on a shooting spree and killed someone, ...

	11/01/12 - 'Government' vs. 'State' Concepts such as that of "government," like those of "democracy," "law," "justice," "freedom" and "love," to cite just a few, is what W. B. Gallie called "essentially ...

	10/24/12 - Secession Fever Sweeping Europe Meaningless Without Debt Repudiation While regional independence is superior to both the failing European Union and the façade of special interest controlled democracy, one further action should taken by ...

	10/23/12 - The Internet Revolution is a Liberty Revolution Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, US constitutional history and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information. They had to spend hours ...

	10/22/12 - Am I a Corporate Shill? It has always been my view that corporations are groups of people united for various purposes, often to benefit from a business venture guided by competent management. ...

	10/21/12 - Brian Doherty on the Trouble With Governments and Benefits of Anarchism The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Brian Doherty. Introduction: Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is ...

	10/18/12 - Society as an Organic Body Karl Marx, in his posthumously published work Grundrisse identified his view of humanity very clearly. Humanity is an organic whole (or body). People aren't individuals but the ...

	10/15/12 - The Economic Case for Right-to-Work The following economic case for right-to-work is an enlarged excerpt from a joint report prepared by a group of faculty members associated with Northwood University and Central ...

	10/15/12 - American Exceptionalism Revisited A fairly prominent perception across the globe is that America has had certain exceptional features. While these are mixed in with various traditional ones, they still manage ...

	10/11/12 - Government in America! The central achievement of the American Revolution was to demote government to a role of cop on the beat. The monarch stopped being the sovereign; the citizen became sovereign ...

	10/09/12 - Government Dependency Will End in Chaos The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It's not that ...

	10/08/12 - Atlas Shrugged (the movie) Part II This could have been a movie review but I am not quite qualified to write one given that we are talking here about a craft, namely, movie making, with which I am not ...

	10/05/12 - Unlimited Democracy The Magna Carta was an early attempt to rein in government, reduce the scope of monarchical rule. Constitutional monarchy was the result in many countries. When democracies ...

	10/01/12 - 'Asking' Versus Forcing Folks to Pay a Little More President Obama raised the issue of why anyone would object to asking the very rich "to give some more." As he put the matter, "What is wrong with 'asking' those who make more ...

	09/21/12 - What Should Freedom Lovers Do? How can one combine professional life with the advancement of liberty? Of course it is presumptuous to offer a definitive answer since all jobs and careers in the market ...

	09/17/12 - Is Middle East Violence Really Black and White? Yesterday a band of murderous, militaristic thugs decided to break into a diplomatic location in Libya. They were carrying RPGs and automatic weapons and murdered four people, ...

	09/13/12 - The Open Secret to Affordability For a little while I was mystified about what would make the health insurance scheme that's at the heart of Obamacare affordable. I was reading about the measure all around the ...

	09/11/12 - A Republic, Not a Democracy Last week marked the conclusion of the grand taxpayer funded spectacles known as the national party conventions. It is perhaps very telling that while $18 million in tax ...

	09/10/12 - Jobs in a Free Country I. The Myth of Job Security From naïve cinematic sentiment to official public ideology is unfortunately not that big a leap. Once during the New Hampshire primaries, ...

	09/03/12 - The New York Times Meets Property Rights Over the last several years I have subscribed to The Sunday New York Times , mainly because it came with accessibility to its daily online editions. I like to read the Op Ed ...

	08/28/12 - Ron Paul and the Future One of the most thrilling memories of the 2012 campaign was the sight of those huge crowds who came out to see Ron. His competitors, meanwhile, couldn't fill half a Starbucks. ...

	08/28/12 - Meaningless Words in Politics As we enter the fall political season, we will hear a great deal of rhetoric from both major political parties and their many candidates for office. It's important for us to ...

	08/16/12 - The Left and Women's Reproductive Rights At the outset I will declare my commitment to the right of women to terminate pregnancies prior to the time a human being has developed in their bodies (roughly the 25th ...

	08/13/12 - The Olympics and Politics Strictly speaking, sports and politics should be separate, just as should be religion and politics. Of course, folks with strong religious convictions will often be guided by ...

	08/09/12 - Elementary, Dear Obama Ok, so none of us creates or produces anything ex nihilo . What if anything follows from this? Our teeth weren't made by us, nor our hair or nose or eyes. Yet we often benefit ...

	08/08/12 - Decision Points Psychology has always had an air of mystery to it. From its root word psyche , meaning soul, and drawn from the Greek myth of psyche and cupid, to Anton Mesmer's introduction ...

	08/06/12 - Acceptable Selfishness? A big debate among business ethics professionals – teachers, consultants, etc. – concerns who should be the beneficiary of business management, share (or stock) ...

	08/03/12 - A Very Brief Note on Minarchism and Monopoly For a while an inordinately long essay has been posted all over disputing my views on government. The author is Nicholas Dykes. I wish to inject just one short comment in ...

	08/02/12 - Why Are there Theories? Over the years, especially since the Internet became prominent and widely used, my own ideas have received a lot of challenges. Some of these come from people with different ...

	08/01/12 - We've Been Aiming at the Wrong Adversary We often think of Karl Marx or the progressive movement as the main source of our political troubles; but the more fundamental source of America's political conflicts goes back ...

	07/30/12 - Troubles of Public Resources Some insist that street vendors around the country should be banned. Why? Because the majority of those doing business adjacent to the street want them to be. The issue has ...

	07/28/12 - FreedomFest, Rome and Opportunity I really enjoyed seeing many of you again this year at FreedomFest, although 2,000-plus attendees with just four days does not allow for many long discussions with individuals. ...

	07/27/12 - Ron Paul Statement: Financial Services Committee Hearing Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Hearing on the Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, July 25, 2012 Mr. ...

	07/26/12 - Another Plea For More Statism! I recently read Zadie Smith's essay, "North West London Blues," in The New York Review of Books , and found it an insulting, devious, and roundabout way of trying to justify ...

	07/24/12 - Security and Self-Governance The senseless and horrific killings last week at a movie theater in Colorado reminded Americans that life is fragile and beautiful, and we should not take family, friends, and ...

	07/16/12 - Constitutional Anomalies As a lay student of the law, it has always struck me odd that in the US system the First Amendment to the Constitution exempts the ministry and journalism from government ...

	07/08/12 - Richard Ebeling on Libertarianism, Anarchism and the Truth of Austrian Economics The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Richard Ebeling. Introduction: Dr. Richard Ebeling is a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic ...

	07/01/12 - Anti-War's Angela Keaton on Women, War and the Ethics of Empire The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Angela Keaton. Introduction: Angela Keaton is the Director of Operations at Antiwar.com. She is ...

	06/12/12 - The CBO Sees the Economic Cliff Ahead Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its annual long-term budget outlook report, and the 2012 numbers are not promising. In fact, the CBO estimates that ...

	06/04/12 - Seattle, America's Europe? On a recent trip to Seattle, which I visit on and off quite a lot, I found the place to have just the kind of feel I have experienced in Stockholm and Oslo and in cities, big ...

	05/20/12 - Robin Koerner on Blue Republicans and Why Ron Paul Remains the Hope for the US's Future The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Robin Koerner. Introduction: Robin Koerner is an influential political journalist who coined the term ...

	05/18/12 - Profiles in Liberty Interview - Tibor Machan Profiles in Liberty: Machan Part IV This interview of Dr. Tibor Machan was conducted by Stephen Hicks, philosophy professor and director of the Center for Ethics and ...

	05/14/12 - Revisiting a Confusion About Basic Rights In his book Basic Rights (Princeton, 1970), Henry Shue argued that there is no valid distinction between negative and positive rights; his argument has recently resurfaced ...

	05/10/12 - Left-Libertarianism - An Oxymoron? Let me state up front that I reject any division of libertarianism into left and right wings. To do so is nearly akin to dividing it into high and low, yellow and blue, or ...

	05/09/12 - Resilience and Success A happy, successful life does more than make you feel good. It also serves to strengthen you, and to open your mind to options and opportunities that you would otherwise not ...

	05/07/12 - The Face of Egalitarianism A few weeks ago they ran the famous Oxford v. Cambridge rowing race on the Thames but a fanatical egalitarian, Mr. Trenton Oldfield from Australia, ruined it for everyone by ...

	05/04/12 - Rich Bashing Is Unjust and Vicious The casual manner in which President Obama proposes that various progressive tax measures be implemented against the so-called rich – ones who earn more than two million ...

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