The American Political Soap Opera
José Fernández, Baseball & America
Libertarians are Winning, Even if Johnson Isn’t Elected
Debunking Bill Maher’s Neo-Luddism
Police Remove Jill Stein From Presidential Debate Grounds
A Fair Form of Corporate Tax
Live Stream: Watch The First Presidential Debate
Britain’s Left Commits Suicide, Again
The Clintons’ Assault on the Black Community
Donald Trump Invites Bill Clinton’s Former Mistress To Debate
Why Free Speech Matters The Most
Perspectives: The DEA and Schedule I Substances
“McAfee: ‘Gringo’ A Complete Fabrication”
Read Rothbard and Other Advice for Charles Peralo
The Incompatibility of Slavery and Capitalism
From the Feds to ICANN: Sacrificing Internet Freedom on the Altar of Globalism
The Real Reason Guns Matter in America
Common Ground: The Elusive Aim
Dear Tom Woods, Murray Rothbard Did Indeed Suck
George HW Bush Will Vote For Hillary Clinton
The American Political Soap Opera
This is satire. According to the mainstream network media, the race for President of the United States in 2016...
The American Political Soap Opera
This is satire. According to the mainstream network media, the race for President of the United States in 2016...
News & Politics
Police Remove Jill Stein From Presidential Debate Grounds
Early Monday morning, Jill Stein was escorted off the Hofstra campus in a police van for trying to board...
Culture
Baseball is the quintessential American game for many reasons. One of those reasons is that anybody can play it,...
On August 26, 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the National Anthem as a...
The Internet… It’s amazing, isn’t it? How one small innovation from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which...
Libertarianism is a political philosophy for intellectuals, perfect for the clever discourse of Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman or...
Comedy & Satire
This is satire. According to the mainstream network media, the race for President of the United States in 2016...
This is satire. The lude libertarian, the ‘airy anarchist, the nude rude diplomatic dude, the choice that’s neither left-nor-right,...
This is satire. MEETING MINUTES August 10, 2016 2:45 AM Guest Bathroom, Clinton residence, Chappaqua, NY Subject: DNC Nominee’s...
This article is satire. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right...
Being Libertarian Perspectives will serve as a weekly, multi-perspective opinion and analysis piece by members of Being Libertarian’s writing team....
Activism
Common Ground: The Elusive Aim
A few days ago I was walking through Central Park with my best friend – a self-described socialist and a vocal once-Bernie supporter who now supports Gary Johnson – and we were discussing just how difficult it is for both of our respective political camps (libertarians and social democrats, respectively)...
Why I Admire Gary Johnson & Why Others Should Too
This is a praise piece. If people want a funny article that analyzes an interesting topic with dark humor, go watch an episode of South Park. If people are expecting me to write about the topic in the headline and later put some edgy spin on it, it’s not...
Top 9 Living Libertarians From Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa, relative to all the other continents, is not a free place. Only a handful of nations can boast about having a marginally functioning democracy, and even then, those countries’ civil services are often extremely corrupt. Whereas Americans, for example, worry about expensive compulsory medical insurance, Africans often have...
Issue 1: Breaking the One Party System in Columbus, Ohio
With all the struggles this presidential election of getting Gary Johnson eligible to take part in the debates, we can easily become lost in the miasma of the federal elections. It had happened to me, until I noticed a post last week from my previous professor Dr. Robert Fitrakis....
Philosophy
Economics
Debunking Bill Maher’s Neo-Luddism
When he gets it right, Bill Maher can be great. I could not help but cheer when he shredded the generation of young left-wingers who cry for safe spaces and who have “gotten too used to getting shit for free”. But when he’s off-base, he is way off. During...
A Fair Form of Corporate Tax
As individuals, our income is usually pretty straight forward. We know how much we bring home with our paychecks, and if we have investments, it is pretty easy to know how much cash goes into our account from them. Individuals have a good understanding of what money they will have on hand (at least the...
The Incompatibility of Slavery and Capitalism
Slavery and capitalism have always been linked by every political group you can think of. It is astonishing that many of these political groups have pointed out that the United States was built on slavery and thus make the parallel connection towards capitalism, assuming that capitalism intentionally uses means...
Markets and Business: Understanding the Difference
It is a common canard among those on the left that libertarians are in the pocket of big business. Apparently, we want to end regulations so our corporate masters can run rough-shod over the rights of the underclasses and generally do all the evils they think big business get...
Technology
Debunking Bill Maher’s Neo-Luddism
When he gets it right, Bill Maher can be great. I could not help but cheer when he shredded the generation of young left-wingers who cry for safe spaces and who have “gotten too used to getting shit for free”. But when he’s off-base, he is way off. During...
From the Feds to ICANN: Sacrificing Internet Freedom on the Altar of Globalism
Hello and warning! I’m about to come to the defense of the United States federal government. Now that I’ve triggered, and lost, at least half of my audience, I ask you dear and brave remaining readers to please give me a chance. Defending the Feds is not something I...
Libertarianism in a Post-Human Society
Zoltan Istvan said major institutions – capitalism, labor, and police – will cease to exist in 25 years. Istvan is running for President of the United States under the banner of the Transhumanist Party. He described a transhumanist as: “Someone who wants to use radical science and technology to...
Internet Naming System To Be Privatized
The Internet… It’s amazing, isn’t it? How one small innovation from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which led to the Internet Protocol (IP) system we use today, was taken by the private sector and thrown in to warp drive, and brought us into a whole new cyber...
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