The Obama administration’s Department of Justice arrested ex-CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling on January 6, 2011, for leaking information about the agency’s botched attempt under President Clinton to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program. He is charged with passing the information to New York Times’ reporter James Risen, continuing, as the Washington Post put it, “the Obama administration’s … Continued
[Updates below.] Billionaire libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch filed suit yesterday against the Cato Institute, one of the country’s biggest free market think tanks. The suit also names Cato co-founder and president Edward H. Crane and board member Kathryn Washburn as defendants. According to court documents obtained by the Washington Post, the dispute centers around … Continued
National Review’s Jonah Goldberg at the debate TheAmerican Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted a debate between Reason Magazine Editor Matt Welch and National Review Editor-at-Large Jonah Goldberg last Wednesday. The question posed was, “Are libertarians part of the conservative movement?” Unfortunately, the debate wasn’t much of a debate. Welch began by stating that he agreed with Goldberg “a … Continued
Libertarians are constantly attacked as proponents of an “every-man-for-himself” philosophy. This is mainly because we hold that each man is morally autonomous–that is, a person is morally accountable for his or her actions alone, and not for those actions taken by others. This individualism is assailed as selfish, or as an attack on altruism. Many … Continued
Reuters is reporting that Vatican, in its infinite wisdom, is calling for a “global authority on the economy” in an official document from the papacy’s creepily named “Justice and Peace Department.” It condemned what it called “the idolatry of the market” as well as a “neo-liberal thinking” that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic … Continued
