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Wabi-Sabi

The Extraordinary Business of Life

MAY 24, 2013 by SANDY IKEDA

Economics studies much more than just the part of life devoted to business, and libertarianism isn't a simple pro-business position. But then business itself--dynamic, subversive, liberating--is much more than just one part of life.

Book Review

Flaying the Emperor

MAY 23, 2013 by ROBERT BATEMARCO

Robert Higgs has made a career of showing that the emperor (i.e., the State) has no clothes. Delusions of Power, a collection of his essays over the last seven years, does much more than that--it flays him, too.

ANYTHING PEACEFUL ANYTHING PEACEFUL

A Diabolical Tool

Ready to get rid of the income tax?

The federal income tax system is burdensome and stupid. It's a diabolical tool against the people's liberty. Let's finally muster the courage to get rid of it--and the entire IRS "workforce" of 95,000 lackeys too shameless and unmindful to protect our liberty.

I Got More Guns Than the KGB

The publication of the world's first blueprint for a 3-D printable gun makes guns a First Amendment issue as well as a Second Amendment one.

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THE ARENA

The Arena is a monthly debate feature designed to help readers explore issues of concern to classical liberals/libertarians.

This month, the issue is Gay Marriage. The proposition is: Gay Marriage Expands Liberty. Richard Lorenc will be arguing for the proposition. Steve Esposito will be arguing against the proposition.

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May 2013

From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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This month, the issue is Gay Marriage. The proposition is: Gay Marriage Expands Liberty. Richard Lorenc will be arguing for the proposition. Steve Esposito will be arguing against the proposition.

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