A space for political libertarians
This is our space to share our policy ideas and act to change the political landscape for the better.
Got a point to make? Want to spice up the content of that old lightning talk you did for that unconference? Got an unconference coming soon and want to rehearse a your new arguments? Fancy honing your debating skills? Does the largest libertarian meetup outside of North America seem like a good place to...
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An interesting point of view from Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio about Bill Gates, Sam Harris and the Superstition of State Education: Check out Stefan’s YouTube channel here
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The Seasteader’s strategy of creating new freer countries to provide competition for old authoritarian ones is conceptually powerful but always seemed slightly unlikely. The thought of living in a tiny community at sea means the default position for anyone supportive is it sounds great, but is “not for me”. Nevertheless Patri Friedman has long...
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At the Backbencher Sam Woolfe is busily promoting the interests of vaguley-leftist organised humanist group the BHA (formerly headed by Polly Toynbee) by mistakenly selling state-free and priest-free weddings under the label "humanist" as if specifically humanist weddings were the only state-free and priest-free weddings available on the market.
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Following on from the post below, I thought I’d put up this entertaining speech from Jeffrey A Tucker, discussing the benefits of what J K Galbraith condemned as ‘The Affluent Society’. (For added pleasure, read Rothbard’s “John Kenneth Galbraith and the sin of affluence“). From the YouTube blurb: “Jeffrey A. Tucker at “The Delusion...
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The following passage begins the introduction to “The Rise and Fall of Society” by Frank Chodorov, published in 1959: WHAT HISTORY will think of our times is something that only history will tell. But it is a good guess that it will select collectivism as the identifying characteristic of the twentieth century. For, even...
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The flight from Kathmandu to Lukla is famous for a couple of things. In particular the landing at Lukla is something like the most dangerous anywhere. The short runway ends in a granite wall and a sharp right turn. It can go dramatically wrong. Don’t worry, that wasn’t us. The other thing it’s interesting...
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It seems Justice Secretary Chris Grayling is a reader of Libertarian Home, as, following my earlier post attacking the secret, Star Chamber Court of Protection, he has ordered a review. Or perhaps it is the somewhat more prominent Daily Mail which has forced his hand. Certainly the Daily Mail is to be commended for...
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If you want to understand just how rotten the English legal system has become, look no further than the Court of Protection. The very notion of a secret court is an attack on the principles our law is supposed to uphold, and what little information escapes from within reveals a tyrannical system where decency...
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Professor Gerard Casey speaking on 17th April 2013 to the newly-formed Queen’s University Belfast Libertarian Society: From the YouTube blurb: “The QUB Libertarian Society is proud to present a recording of a talk given by Professor Gerard Casey in Queen’s on Wednesday 17th April. In this talk he outlines the core ideals that make...
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