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11 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
“The fact is, America is a country fundamentally shaped by libertarian values and attitudes. Our libertarian values helped to create the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and those documents in turn shape our thinking about freedom and the limited...
6 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
Anyone who prefers to be spoon-fed comforting lies rather than seek out the facts engages in pure infantilism. And it is also childish to insist that historically reputable news sources – we’re looking at you, “Gray Lady” – haven’t devolved into pure...
6 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
“Statism is nothing more than gang rule. A statist dictatorship is a gang devoted to looting the effort of the productive citizens of its own country.”– Ayn Rand, War and Peace, The Objectivist Newsletter, Oct 1962 What is statism? Merriam-Webster de...
29 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
“No man who says I’m as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did. The St Bernard never says it to the toy dog, nor the scholar to the dunce, nor the employable to the bum, nor the pretty woman to the plain. The claim to equality, outsid...
29 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
What is a Minarchist? A Minarchist is someone who believes that the state should only exist for the purpose of maintaining law and order. Minarchism is a Libertarian political philosophy where the state’s only function is protecting individuals from...
19 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
What are “Negative Rights”? We all have rights as human beings in the United States. We have the right to attend school, go to college, work to obtain money, own property, and defend ourselves, but where do these rights start to infringe on others’ f...
18 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
What is classical liberalism? And what does it mean to be a classically liberal? Classical liberalism refers to the philosophy of individual liberty, property rights, and rule of law that dominated the West from the late 1700s until the mid-1900s....
15 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella
We were somewhere around Knoxville on the shore of the Tennessee River when the energy drinks began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel like we should offer a Hunter S. Thompson collection on Libertas Bella…” The cofounder of the w...
13 Apr 2022 1 minute read 1 comment LibertasBella
What are “Positive Rights”? There is much talk regarding “rights” and how they relate to freedom and liberty. If you’re wondering, “what are positive rights,” and why should I care? We’ll explain what they are and some of the fundamental issues that...
11 Apr 2022 3 minute read 1 comment LibertasBella
Robert Nozick was one of Harvard’s most distinguished professors, a president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and the author of several influential books. Robert Nozick quotes, while not as numerous as those of bett...
