The Truth About John Brown Part I

John Brown was a ravenous, raving abolitionist.But let us not fall for the lie that he was a moral, upright man.He was a terrorist, a zealot who did not respect right or law.Slavery was an immense evil in the United States, past question.Yet illiberal means to achieve...

The Tao of Calvin Coolidge

30th President Calvin Coolidge (Notman Photo Co.) President Calvin Coolidge adopted a laissez-faire attitude to governance when he took office after the death of President Warren G. Harding. It is striking how harmonious his views flow with the ancient thought of...

Belief, Liberty, and Libertarianism

I believe in liberty. I also believe in natural rights. It is wrong to harm others in order to improve one’s situation in this life.I have deep reservations about helping people take control of their own lives. Whether every human being is willing to admit it or not,...

What is a Libertarian? What does a Libertarian Do?

What is a libertarian?The word means approximately "believer in liberty". Libertarians believe in individual conscience and individual choice, and reject the use of force or fraud to compel others except in response to force or fraud. (This latter is called...

Hayek and the Humbling of the Human Intellect

Free Market Economist Friedrich Hayek affirmed that every mind must humble itself to the fact that its tools of reason are not a product of its own creation. We owe our ability to understand anything through means that we did not create.We are not our own. We cannot...

Sin, Freedom, and the Real Reason (?) For Living

"Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. I know that ye...