“When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” -William Wrigley, Jr. As noted in a prior piece, libertarians have a nasty habit of getting into dick-measuring contests over who is the most libertarian. While it is great that libertarian philosophy is coherent and consistent over the years, this consistency can be stifling at…
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” Autumn is the best season. If you dare disagree, you have besmirched me and I demand satisfaction. Fisticuffs may be imminent. Perhaps a duel at twenty paces is afoot. If you live in the South or…
A few weeks ago, I dove into the question of why everyone hates libertarians, and why we hate each other. Having stirred that hornet’s nest, it’s now time to look into a related question: should libertarians be in the Libertarian Party (“LP”)? Or one of the two duopoly parties? Or, should we just stay out…
Some critics of libertarianism have used the COVID-19 crisis as a “gotcha” or a “checkmate” to discredit the movement. The logic, as I understand it, is that this situation absolutely requires a strong government response, and libertarians would be unable or unwilling to provide such. News flash: our various levels of government aren’t libertarian, many…
“You’re going to find really wonderful, well-meaning, well spoken people, and then people who are just bat-shit crazy.” -Gov. Gary Johnson, 2012 and 2016 Libertarian Party presidential nominee, when asked about the Libertarian National Convention Libertarians, whether they are in the Libertarian Party or skulking about the fringes of the Republican Party, are a notoriously…
“The main colors of Missouri are: Green for the grass and the trees Blue for the sky and the lakes Brown for the bricks, the dirt, the mud, the rivers—and the bullshit.” -me, November 18, 2003 Missouri has always had an identity crisis. We don’t know if we’re Southern or Midwestern. Missouri had a star…
My Long, Strange Trip to Liberty or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Laissez-faire by Chris Morrill My evolution into a libertarian took place in three phases: Phase 1: Confused Childhood Dixiecrat I grew up in southeast Missouri, a place so uniformly conservative that anyone to the left of our native son…