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Che Guevara in 10 (Not So) Great Quotes | The Libertarian

Ten not so great quotes from every teenager's favourite freedom fighter. Share this link, and spread the truth about Che Guevara!

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Libertarian Jesus | International Liberty

Most of my political humor is designed to mock statists. That's true whether I'm sharing cartoons, videos, jokes, or one-liners. But I also enjoy clever left-wing humor, even when libertarians are the target. Here are examples that tickled my funny bone.

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The Distinction Between Governance and Government

Edward Peter Stringham joins us for a discussion on his new book, Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life.

'So many people will look out in society. They will observe something that they might not like and then they say, “OK. Well, let’s just pass a law.” I’m going to mandate my preferences or my ideal way of doing things on these people, oftentimes not really thinking about whether it’s going to be effective or thinking about whether it’s going to have certain unintended consequences.

So yes, there is this tendency which I refer to as legal centralism and that’s the idea that all order comes about because of the state and people who are legal centralists, whenever they observe problems in the world, will then say, “Well, we need to have additional rules and regulations to deal with them.”