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Author: Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the Executive Editor of The Libertarian Institute. His latest book is America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited. Sheldon is also the author of Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families, Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax, and Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State.

Congress Again Rewards Israel’s Misdeeds

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Sheldon Richman

To judge by what Congress is up to these days, one would think that it wants to reward Israel for its relentless confiscation of Palestinian land and continued ethnic cleansing.

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Russia in Ukraine: Qui Bono?

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 Sheldon Richman

I don’t know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine — an argument could be made for the affirmative — but I’d hate to think it did. Yet given its long record of global mischief (a polite word for its machinations), we certainly cannot rule out the point a priori.

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When History Begins – Russia, Ukraine & the US

March 4, 2022March 4, 2022 Sheldon Richman

Contrary to what hypocritical U.S. rulers and their loyal mass media suggest, two propositions can both be — and indeed are — true: 1) that Russia has grossly, brutally, and criminally mishandled the situation it has faced with respect to Ukraine, and 2) that the U.S. government since the late 1990s has been entirely responsible for imposing that situation on Russia.

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On Privilege

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 Sheldon Richman

One of the most abused words in English is privilege. Observe how indiscriminately this word is spoken and written. For example, in some quarters, all straight white men — without exception — are said to be privileged, which seems absurd.

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Licensing the Fringe

February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 Sheldon Richman

Big Tech’s incredible promise to rid its platforms of “misinformation and disinformation” is not only a chimera that will harm the most gullible, but it is also an unwitting grant of power and credibility to some of the dodgiest elements online.

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More Voices, Please

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 Sheldon Richman

If the social media and other high-tech companies, whether under pressure from the state or not, were to lead people to believe that, starting today, only accurate information will get through their gatekeepers, would the public, especially the most gullible, really be better off?

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Disagreement without Conflict

February 4, 2022February 4, 2022 Sheldon Richman

If disagreement is and will be ubiquitous, how in hell can we hope for widespread agreement on a detailed code of law or rights theory? We can’t hope for that, and we should stop acting as though we can because it looks to be a time-waster. It’s been tried, so we must learn there are no magic words to do the trick.

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Anti-Woke Isn’t Necessarily Pro-Liberty

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Sheldon Richman

I had a reminder this week that those who oppose fashionable postmodernist-style attacks on reason and objectivity, such as “critical” race and gender theories, are not necessarily consistent friends of liberty and the free society.

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Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules

January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Sheldon Richman

Hard cases make bad law, an adage apparently coined before 1837 tells us. In other words, “an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases.” Not everyone has agreed that this is the case, but we’ll let that go. I just want to point out that easy cases also may make bad law, or at least bad rules.

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Utopianism May Be Hazardous to Your Health

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 Sheldon Richman

Beware those who claim to have a detailed blueprint for the ideal society. If such a person thinks you stand in the way, you may get run over. That’s how it is with utopians. They want everything just so, and woe betide those who disagree.

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