A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to write a brief introduction to Libertarianism for the local magazine, the Fayetteville FEED. The FEED will print the article in their July issue, alongside a rebuttal of Libertarianism by another contributor. I'm going to post a brief snippet of the article below, and encourage you to pick up a copy of the magazine when it publishes next week.

Also, visit The Fayetteville FEED's website HERE. They are a great source of local information about music, artists, and all of the quirky things that make Fayetteville a pretty decent place to live.


Introduction to my article on Libertarianism to appear in the July issue of the Fayetteville FEED Magazine.

Medicare is going bankrupt, Social Security is going bankrupt, we are involved in two wars with no end in sight, we are facing the worst economy since the 1930s, and we can’t control a major oil leak in the gulf because our politicians and major corporations would rather worry about how they look on the evening news than actually work to solve the crisis.

Have I left anything out? Oh yeah, and as a nation we currently owe $54,000,000,000,000 in debt. That’s $175,000 per person.

We’re in bad shape. Yet, Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative, the answers given to us by government are always the same: “Give us more power and we can stop that problem,” or “give us more money and we’ll be able to fix or avert that crisis”. You’d think that we would have wised up by now, instead of electing the same bureaucrats who continually dig us into deeper holes.

There is an alternative to this mess and the endless cycle of economic recessions, wars and the loss of your inalienable rights and civil liberties. That alternative is libertarianism...

Read more when The FEED publishes in July!

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. -- Ludwig von Mises