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Reasons for Hope

For us true liberals and libertarians, these days are among the darkest we’ve encountered in a couple of generations. “Conservative nationalism” is fast rising on the political right, “democratic socialism” is increasingly popular on the political left, and the only attraction of policy positions in the middle is that these aren’t at one or the…

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Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is a Form of Social Engineering

At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Manners are missing; ethics are being eliminated; culture is corrupted; social attitudes are supercilious; virtues are vanishing; literature is mostly licentious; industry and commerce are materialistically crude and callous; and humaneness is hamstrung by greed and selfishness. It’s the…

Five Reasons Why Liberals Should Vote Libertarian
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Five Reasons Why Liberals Should Vote Libertarian

By Micah J. Fleck Following our previous list of Five Reasons Why Conservatives Should Vote Libertarian, TLR is now looking at the top five reasons that those other guys, liberals, should also consider voting for the Libertarian Party – in 2016, locally, and beyond. As the resident lefty libertarian on staff, I have explained my…

O’Malley: Only Humans Suffer from Unemployment

Martin O’Malley is taking the Bernie Sanders approach to getting headlines: say ridiculously stupid things. O’Malley astutely observed that animals don’t have employment problems. Of course, they also don’t have any system of trade, commerce, or an organized society– but whatever. This is the Democratic debate; it’s a contest to see who can say the…

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Not All Cultures Are Equal: How Denial Is Destroying the West

[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n wake of the news hundreds of women had been sexually assaulted by up to 1000 suspected Middle Eastern and North African migrants in Cologne, Germany, politicians, journalists, law enforcement, and devoted liberals scrambled to downplay the situation. Their explanations of what had occurred New Year’s Eve in Germany’s fourth largest city lay waste to…

Video Shows Trump Actually Agrees With Cruz on “New York Values”

Last night Donald Trump managed to feign personal outrage over Ted Cruz’s remarks about “New York values.” Now a video has surfaced showing Donald Trump is very familiar with the “New York values” Cruz spoke of– in fact, at one time he was quite proud of them. How did Cruz define liberal values? The Texas…