Dan Sanchez
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Atlanta, GA, United States
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Unpopular Truths Need to Be Told
When people all around you have been whipped up by deceiving demagogues into woke manias, public health hysterias, planet panics, war fevers, and socialist scrambles for legal loot, it can be tempting to keep your head down, to dissimulate, and to “go along to get along." But to acquiesce to lies is to forsake the truth. → Read More
Call Off the Call-Out Culture War
As Leonard Read wrote, those who favor freedom and virtue must “rid ourselves of that troublesome notion which leads many people to conclude that the techniques used by communists, for instance, to destroy a free society can be effectively employed to advance an understanding of freedom.” → Read More
A Legacy of Light
A single candle can spark a brushfire of enlightenment, and, as Leonard Read pointed out, the surrounding darkness is powerless to stop it. → Read More
Leonard Read's Three Levels of Libertarian Leadership
Level 1: Understand the freedom philosophy well enough that you don’t advocate for violations of liberty in any sphere. → Read More
Individualist Feminism Versus Collectivist Feminism
Wendy McElroy:“Individualist feminists approached equality in a more strictly legal manner, appealing to natural-law theory. They wished the individual rights of women to be fully acknowledged under laws that protected the person and private property of men and women identically.""Gender feminism is based on different theory: MacKinnon has referred to the ideology as ‘post-Marxist,’ meaning that… → Read More
How Atheist Anti-Capitalists Miss the Point
If an economist sees the handiwork of God in the economy, does that invalidate his economic arguments from a secular perspective? The great economist Ludwig von Mises, who himself was either atheist or agnostic, noted that: “Many economists, among them Adam Smith and Bastiat, believed in God. Hence they admired in the facts they had discovered the providential care of ‘the great Director of… → Read More
By Teaching, We Learn… and Vice Versa
On writing his first book, Henry Hazlitt recalled: “I primarily wanted to teach myself how to think more efficiently, independently, and, if possible, originally. I had already sensed that ‘he who teaches, learns.’” Here Hazlitt paraphrased the Latin proverb docendo discimus ("by teaching, we learn") which the Stoic philosopher Seneca expressed as, "Men learn while they teach." This ancient… → Read More
What Leonard Read Learned from Mises and Nock about Changing the World
While Mises’s and Nock’s respective theories of social change may seem at odds, Leonard Read managed to reconcile and synthesize them. → Read More
When a Congressman Tried to Censor FEE
“Those who seek to extend the power of Government try to close the mouths of citizens who dare to oppose or to inform public opinion on the dangers involved..." — W. C. Mullendore, founding trustee of FEE and mentor to Leonard E. Read → Read More
It's Either Commands or Contracts
“There are two different kinds of social cooperation,” wrote Ludwig von Mises: one based on contract (voluntary agreement and reciprocity), the other based on hegemony (”command and subordination”). Individuals can be joined together either by “contractual bonds” or “hegemonic bonds.” → Read More
Herbert Spencer’s Two Types of Society
Herbert Spencer wrote that the “typical structure” of a militant society can be seen in an army of conscripts. → Read More
Running Away from Our Own Revolution
“The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.” → Read More
What Ayn Rand Meant by “Americanism”
In 1946, a Russian immigrant to America tried to remind her fellow citizens what America was all about. → Read More
Cato’s Letters Explained “the Glorious Principles of Liberty” to the American Founders
“Let people alone, and they will take care of themselves, and do it best; and if they do not, a sufficient punishment will follow their neglect, without the magistrate's interposition and penalties. It is plain, that such busy care and officious intrusion into the personal affairs, or private actions, thoughts, and imaginations of men, has in it more craft than kindness; and is only a device to… → Read More
The Old Order and the Libertarian Revolution
“For the classical liberal movement,” Rothbard wrote, “was throughout the Western world, a mighty libertarian ‘revolution’ against what we might call the Old Order..." → Read More
The Libertarian (and Whig) Heritage of America
To say, as Murray Rothbard did, that the American revolutionaries were libertarian may initially strike one as anachronistic. After all, they certainly did not refer to themselves as “libertarians.” People did not start identifying as libertarian until the 20th century. But we shouldn’t get so hung up on words that we lose sight of the ideas to which they refer. → Read More
The Iron Law of Kleptocracy
According to John Locke, tyranny is a corruption of government: an abuse of power and law. Frédéric Bastiat agreed and wrote of law being “perverted” and used, not for the protection of property against plunder, but for the perpetration of plunder against property. He called this “legal plunder.” This view of government and tyranny was shared by such great thinkers as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand,… → Read More
The Education of Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt couldn’t afford entry into the Ivory Tower. As it turned out, that was a blessing: for him and for the world. → Read More
The Three Traits of Tyranny
John Locke taught the American founders how to spot a tyrant. → Read More
Why Libertarians Should Give Thanks, Especially in Times Like These
The path of wrath only leads to making things even worse. The way to restore the good, liberty included, is the high road of love and gratitude. That’s not sentimental wishful thinking. It’s a fundamental existential truth. Indeed, it is when we give in to wrath that we are being counter-productively “sentimental,” i.e., emotionally self-indulgent. → Read More