Does Privilege Matter?
Did you know that you are free to find your own happiness in the world, no matter what situation you were born into? Don’t believe me. Listen to this rich, white guy Jean Paul Sartre explain it.
Did you know that you are free to find your own happiness in the world, no matter what situation you were born into? Don’t believe me. Listen to this rich, white guy Jean Paul Sartre explain it.
Paraphrasing the English journalist and philosopher G. K. Chesterton, New Testament scholar N.T. Wright wrote: The purpose of an open mind… is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must…
Hello to the readers of The Libertarian Republic, My good friend Austin Petersen, the editor of The Libertarian Republic asked me to write to you and introduce myself. Austin wanted me to let everyone know why I decided to advertise on his new web page and what I am all about. Simply stated I believe in…
If a state is repressing the natural rights of her citizens, what does it matter whether it’s a local state government or the federal government? The repression of a citizens natural rights is wrong no matter what level of government does it. So if a state government created a law that denied citizens free speech,…
Why Selling Liberty Needs To Appeal to the Brain, the Body & The Heart by Avens O’Brien Last week I published a silly article titled “7 Reasons Libertarian Women Make Amazing Girlfriends”. Many of the comments on that article indicated that many libertarian men desired and couldn’t find libertarian women – either ones that would…
Rand Paul’s presidential race has had a dramatic impact already on the liberty movement, with tens of thousands of Google searches bringing people to The Libertarian Republic to learn more about our ideas. We’ve written quite frequently about libertarian issues, and we do it in a way that we think makes them more approachable, and…
Over 45 million people died in China’s embrace of Communism. From 1958 to 1976, the “Great Leap Forward” as it was called, sacrificed millions of people to the ideas of forced collectivism and big government. Mao Zedong criminalized the ownership of private farms, forced people into industrial labor, and engaged in one of the deadliest…