Education

School Vouchers Aren’t Libertarian

by Jacob Huebert September 3, 2010

Today LewRockwell.com offers another excerpt from my book.  This one is about why government-funded school vouchers aren’t compatible with libertarianism. (Yesterday, LRC ran an excerpt about Ronald Reagan.) I do understand why some libertarians like vouchers: they rightly feel bad for the actual, real-world children who are forced by law to attend horrible government schools, [...]

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Regarding Libertarian Strategy: A Reply to Ross Kenyon

by Akiva August 31, 2010

Although I find Kenyon’s analysis of the radical socialists interesting, ultimately I disagree with his categorization of libertarianism’s 3 options: Libertarians can allow themselves to be absorbed into the Republican Party and work to expand the Liberty caucus. Libertarians can abandon the Republican Party to work exclusively through the Libertarian Party. Libertarians can jettison electoral politics altogether and refuse to [...]

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TLS Q&A: What is Austrian Economics?

by Juan Fernando Carpio August 15, 2010

Reader Ryan reminded us that not everyone who happens upon The Libertarian Standard will know what Austrian Economics is. Since an understanding of sound economics is so important to understanding the case for liberty, and Austrian Economics just is sound economics, we decided to make this the first question-and-answer for our Q&A series and the [...]

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Announcing the TLS Q&A Series and Libertarian FAQ

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 4, 2010

You may have already noticed that we’ve launched a new feature on The Libertarian Standard: the Libertarian FAQ. We’re formally announcing it now. You may also have noticed that the FAQ is pretty much empty at the moment. That’s where you, and another new feature we’re announcing today, come in. We will be gradually filling [...]

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Mises.org Available as a Torrent Download!

by David J. Heinrich June 15, 2010

The Ludwig von Mises Institute has issued the second release of all of the content on their website as torrent files. This means that you can download all of the content available on Mises.org (as of June 15, 2010) by downloading various torrent files and opening them up with your torrent client (e.g., uTorrent, Vuze, [...]

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…and this is bad because?

by Isaac Bergman June 11, 2010

Over 2,400 tax-feeders-in-training are threatening to go ‘on strike’ by skipping classes today in protest over the MTA’s plan to cut NYC students’ free usage of the subway & bus system, which is an annual subsidy of at least $214 million (assuming they only use it twice a day to travel between home and school.) Students [...]

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Was it worth it?

by Michael Barnett May 23, 2010

Well, as predicted (by me), in pursuit of one of Connecticut’s US Senate seats, Peter Schiff wasted a lot of time and money, and was forced to refrain from making several television appearances on financial news programs (due to campaign laws). He placed an embarrassing third: Former professional wrestling maven Linda McMahon capped an improbable [...]

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