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And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. – Revelation 13:1
There’s a lot of finger-wagging and tongue-clucking going on lately about “free speech.” The extreme right has appropriated the term as a rallying cry and dog-whistle so effectively that a bigoted murderer defiantly yelled “free speech or die” during his court hearing. On the flip side, militant leftists on and off campus have raised the…
There’s a recurring dialogue in politics between those on the left and those on the right that I’ve seen played out (and participated in) many times, in many different forms and contexts. It goes generally something like this: RIGHTY: Taxation is theft. LEFTY: No it’s not, it pays for critical infrastructure and helps provide for…
A little over a year ago, I sent an email to libertarian philosopher Walter E. Block about his then-burgeoning “Libertarians for Trump” movement. Block and co-founder Dr. Donald Miller announced their group’s launch on the libertarian site LewRockwell.com. Their reasoning for embracing Trump’s candidacy was basically this: Trump’s rhetoric on foreign policy was largely non-interventionist,…