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Good and Evil

One of the most popular lines of argument against our recent arguments in defense of paternalism (see here, here and here) goes something like this: “If evil doesn’t meaningfully exist as a choice, then neither does good.”

Where does anyone get off with such nonsense? (more…)

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Gary Johnson, despite numerous, cringe-worthy campaign missteps, a non-existent foreign policy, and an economic policy supported by approximately zero practicing economists, was the most successful Libertarian Party (LP hereafter) candidate of all time in both total vote and percentage terms. Almost half of the votes that the Libertarian Party has ever received in all presidential races put together went to the Johnson/Weed ticket in 2016.  (more…)

Hieronymous Bosch, “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”

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There’s been a noticeable spike in the national debate about marijuana legalization, after CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta surprised everyone by announcing that marijuana is not only harmless but helpful. It’s the first time I can ever recall cheering anything said by a CNN correspondent.

Prudishness about drug use tends to be an “Old Right” thing. Just about everybody I know in the New Right has used drugs. (Except Greg Johnson, who is a bit of a narc.) Old-time right-wingers tend to associate drugs with hippies, and worry that somehow drug use leads to liberalism (or follows from it). (more…)

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Most of America’s founding ideology is bunk, and America’s founding culture is pretty much rotten to the core. But beneath all that flowery Masonic nonsense about “happiness” and against “tyrants” scribbled by a bunch of wealthy merchants who didn’t want to pay taxes was the wonderful and revolutionary notion, most directly inscribed in the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights, namely the notion of individual sovereignty. (more…)

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Greg Johnson was interviewed by Robert Stark on The Stark Truth about such topics as globalization; building political coalitions (more…)