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The editors of "Reason.tv" and "Reason" magazine describe how digitization, innovation, and personalization are expanding options and improving everything except politics and explore their vision of the future structured by libertarian principles of freeminds and free market.
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2017.
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Conservatism, Republican politics, and traditional Christianity are thought by some to go together like baseball and apple pie. Yet, for a growing number of people, libertarian political thought provides an alternative to the traditional Christian right. That number includes the six young authors of this book who explore and expound the case that one can be both a Christian and a libertarian. Called to Freedom explores the major points of tension...
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In this essential manifesto of the new libertarian movement, New York Times bestselling author and president of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe makes a stand for individual liberty and shows us what we must do to preserve our freedom. Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a rational yet passionate argument that defends the principles upon which America was founded—principles shared by citizens across the political spectrum. The Constitution grants...
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Rubin posits that progressives, "once on the side of free speech and tolerance, ... now ban speakers from college campuses, 'cancel' people who aren't up to date on the latest genders, and force religious people to violate their conscience. They have abandoned the battle of ideas and have begun fighting a battle of feelings. This uncomfortable truth has turned moderates and true liberals into the politically homeless class ... [In his book], Rubin...
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The Palliser novels volume 4
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Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope - When Phineas's wife dies, he becomes discontented with his life as a minor government functionary and longs to return to his exciting former career of politics in London. His luck is as strong as ever; his party is seeking to return to power with fresh blood, and with its support, he is once again elected to Parliament.
However, he makes a bitter enemy within his own party, Mr. Bonteen. When Bonteen is murdered, there...
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Libertarianism isn't about winning elections; it is first and foremost a political philosophy-a description of how, in the opinion of libertarians, free people ought to treat one another, at least when they use the law, which they regard as potentially dangerous. If libertarians are correct, the law should intrude into people's lives as little as possible, rarely telling them what to do or how to live.A political and economic philosophy as old as...
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Las democracias liberales comparten la entronización de la libertad de expresión como valor fundamental del sistema político. Sin embargo, no todos los que afirman este valor coinciden en su contenido y alcances. Nuestra comprensión acerca del significado de la libertad de expresión y las responsabilidades estatales necesarias para asegurar su goce varía en función de la teoría que justifique y sustente esa libertad. En el debate jurídico...
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"Having read Isabel Paterson, I was not only influenced but convinced that a philosophy that embraced personal liberty, private property, and sound money was the only political philosophy worth championing." -- Ron Paul in "End The Fed"
The God of the Machine "does for capitalism what Das Kapital does for the Reds and what the Bible did for Christianity." -- Ayn Rand
In "The God of the Machine," Isabel Paterson makes a comprehensive case arguing...
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Herbert Spencer was an incredible prophet and a magnificent defender of laissez-faire. Among his numerous works is
The Man Versus The State, first published in 1884. That book launched one of the most spirited attacks on statism ever written. He ridiculed the idea that government intervention of any kind "will work as it is intended to work, which it never does." He drew on his tremendous knowledge of history, citing one dramatic case after another...
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En correspondencia con su programa, los gobiernos liberales de la década de 1850 a 1860 se emprendieron dos ciclos de reformas que le dieron una primer ciclo reformista, que corresponde al legado del presidente liberal caucano José Hilario López (1849 - 1853), se caracterizó por impulsar transformaciones de corte radical en el comercio y las finanzas públicas del estado, así como la consagración de las libertades individuales y el voto universal...
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A lively history of American libertarianism and how the ideology was corrupted by delusion and greed.
In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick's house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly fee, leaving his home in ashes. When Glenn Beck talked about the fire on his radio show, he thought...
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"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why ... have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against 'big government' led to the rise of a broad-based conservative movement. But ... Jane Mayer [argues] in this ... history...
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Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk...
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A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
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There is a well-worn image and phrase for libertarianism: "atomized individualism." This hobgoblin has spread so thoroughly that even some libertarians think their philosophy unreservedly supports private persons, whatever the situation, whatever their behavior. Smith's Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism, corrects this misrepresentation with careful intellectual surveys of Hume, Smith, Hobbes, Butler, Mandeville, and Hutcheson...
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If you believe that individual freedom and liberty must be held sacrosanct, Michael Schulte's sociocultural poetic analysis is the book for you. His favorite poem describes the thought process he follows when contemplating trends in Western culture:
Seek truth
with reason your guide
Your conscience
for no allegiance set aside
After two decades in academia, Michael Schulte gathered first-hand experience with cancel culture, trigger warnings,...
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Libertarian journalist Kristin Tate provides a look into the wild world of frivolous taxation, aimed at educating members of her own generation in the evils of big government.
In How Do I Tax Thee?, libertarian commentator and rising media star Kristin Tate takes us on a tour of the ways the government bleeds us dry in innumerable daily transactions and at various stages of life.
We all know the government taxes our pay: federal, state, and local...
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What do Libertarians believe that sets them apart from other political parties? How do Libertarian values, approaches and principles result in more successful "pursuits of happiness" than the approaches of other political parties? And how does Judge Jim Gray dare to say that the Libertarians are the only political party in the mainstream of American political thought today? All Rise! The Libertarian Way with Judge Jim Gray will answer all of these...
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La irrupción, poco explicada pero totalmente explicable, de la ultraderecha en el panorama político occidental tiene un poco desconcertado al conjunto de la ciudadanía democrática. No se trata del fascismo ni del nacionalsocialismo de toda la vida, ni siquiera del franquismo. No se trata de nostálgicos –aunque los haya entre sus militantes–, algo que facilita su penetración en colectivos jóvenes necesitados de un líder que coincida con...
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What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic-as relevant today as it was half a century ago. Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to be retreating into factions-Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and so on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it explores conservatism's rich internal debate. Edited...
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