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• Real Liberalism and the Law of Nature
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, August 10, 2007
  “Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.” — Thomas Hodgskin Is government the source of our rights? I fear that today many people would say yes. Not infrequently it is said that the government or the Constitution grants us freedom of speech or press or the […]
• The Goal Is Freedom: The Constitution Within
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, August 18, 2006
  In recent columns I've argued that a free society depends ultimately on people having a proper sense of just conduct. This means more than the words they recite or put on paper. Most crucial is how they act and expect others to act. For this reason it is futile to put undue emphasis on written constitutions as the key to liberty. The real constitution is within — each of us. If the freedom philosophy is not inscribed in the actions of people, no constitution will help. More . . .

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• Technology, Not Politics, Is the Future of Progress
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  Nima Sanandaji | Tuesday, December 15, 2015

  Google is doing more than the government to handle the big challenges facing humanity. 

• Force Fetishists
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, September 14, 2007
  Why is it that every few years some prominent newspaper or magazine publishes a critical article about the freedom philosophy (libertarianism) that rests on the same confusion over two key but simple concepts? Such confusion should have been dispelled by 1875 when Lysander Spooner, the colorful individualist anarchist and abolitionist, wrote his great essay “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty.” In that essay Spooner took pains to distinguish actions that harm the actor (vices) and actions that harm others by invading their persons or property (crimes). More . . .
  

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• The Glaring Flaw Plaguing the Department of Justice’s Lawsuit Against Google
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  James Czerniawski | Monday, November 2, 2020

  How will the DOJ prove that consumers are worse off from having Google’s services at their fingertips entirely for free? 

• Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice
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  Barry Brownstein | Tuesday, August 6, 2019

  There are good reasons to be concerned that we are losing access to information with which to evaluate opposing sides of health issues. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to many websites that question the medical orthodoxy.

• Thoughts Rule the World
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  Leonard E. Read | Wednesday, September 26, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Thoughts Rule the World! 1. Thoughts Rule the World Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world. —EMERSON Discoveries, inventions, insights, intuitive flashes—thoughts—are what I understand by “spiritual.” It is obvious that everything by […]
• Then Truth Will Out
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  Leonard E. Read |
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of Then Truth Will Out! 1. A Confession of Faith To paraphrase John Ruskin: I have heard it said, by men practiced in public address, that hearers are never so much fatigued as by the endeavor to follow a speaker who gives them […]
• Accent on the Right
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  Leonard E. Read |
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of Accent on the Right! Dedication Dedication of a book is a writer’s way of paying respect to someone, or of acknowledging a devoted helper, or of honoring a loved one—and, as a rule, the tribute is to a contemporary. Why, then, my […]
• Deeper Than You Think
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  Leonard E. Read |
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of Deeper Than You Think! Prologue Despite the fact that men never have found a paradise on earth, many continue to hope for a Shangri-La here and now; and they seek a shepherd to guide them to it. They long for a god […]