Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) has a consistent message, which has endeared him to many disenchanted voters in the current political climate. What has always seemed to sink him, though, are the tactics his campaign has repeatedly chosen to employ. These cloud his original message and abdicate responsibility on critical questions concerning Rep. Paul’s electability altogether. For … Read more
President Theodore Roosevelt once famously said, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,” a proverb that would echo in the annals and come to be associated with his unabashed interventionist foreign policy. American foreign policy according to Roosevelt’s worldview should use American power for good throughout the world. As a libertarian, … Read more
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill Ten weeks have come and gone in the blink of an eye and here I am, putting a neat little bow on the tidy story I have composed … Read more
No matter how much the business of education may be apotheosized it is just that, a business. Education, like any other business, cannot be so sacrosanct to be beyond reform. Yet the grandiloquence surrounding the reform debate, might lead one to believe education is necessarily immune to criticism. To take education of its pedagogical pedestal, … Read more
Prior to my last week as an intern for Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), I took to Virginia for a campus activism and campaign training event sponsored by Young Americans for Liberty. It was a delightful reprieve from the normal rough and tumble at the office, and it taught us liberty fanatics a host of strategies … Read more
I seldom have the opportunity to incorporate America’s pastime into a political piece, but it recently dawned upon me that a notable parallel exists between Major League slugger Jim Thome and Republican Presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.): the media tends to undervalue their respective accomplishments. Jim Thome is a victim of bad timing, according … Read more
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. ‘94 is a Harvard alumnus who contributes to modern libertarian thought: a rare combination. He received his bachelor’s degree in history, and then moved on to Columbia, where he earned his master’s, M.Phil., and Ph.D. Today, Dr. Woods is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and continues to … Read more
Be sure to read Parts 1, 2 and 3 if you haven’t yet! From continued debt ceiling discussions, to committee hearings, and even to a baseball game, my penultimate summer blog post covers all the bases (pardon the pun) in arguably the most eventful two weeks of the internship. In case you had not been … Read more
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” – Emma Goldman Sarah Siskind has been gracious enough to attempt to persuade me to do my civic duty and show up at the polls. However, none of Sarah’s points manage to convince me to change my persuasion. Allow me to explain. Sarah first argues that the … Read more
“Don’t vote; it only encourages the bastards.” – P. J. O’Rourke Like Robert Murphy, Gordon Tullock, and Steven Landsburg, I do not vote. My reason is largely a utilitarian one: because a candidate will always emerge victorious in an election, an individual’s vote only has consequence if it serves as the tie-breaker. In the absence of … Read more