Category:Morality

May 21, 2021 | Video

The Prohibition Era is a dark time in US history: bootleggers, corrupt politicians, mafia organizations… It is gone, but alcohol laws are still reminiscence of that time. We realized this only after the pandemic.

In this video, we talked to Jacob Rich, policy analyst of the Reason Foundation/Magazine, discussed the history of alcohol policies in the US and how to improve them for the future.

January 11, 2018 | Video

Is human blood a “public resource”? Prof. Peter Jaworski argues that your bodily fluids belong to you, and governments should let you sell them.

October 25, 2017 | Post

Luck egalitarianism is, roughly, the view that inequalities in life prospects resulting from luck are unjust. If Amy has better job opportunities than Bob because she happened to have parents who could afford to send her to a fancy private school, that’s unfair.

October 9, 2017 | Post

We need to be careful about arguing that players have a First Amendment right to protest peacefully on the field.

October 4, 2017 | Post

We treat those we believe to be ill-motivated as adversaries to be defeated, and we frequently have no compunction about excluding them from our “disinterested pursuit of truth.”

September 5, 2017 | Post

To gain a proper appreciation of the free market and its benefits, we need to also become aware of its weaknesses. I have written previously at Learn Liberty about how 20th-century economist Wilhelm Röpke argued that while the free market has the capacity to encourage morality, other institutions—like families and churches — are a more […]

August 15, 2017 | Post

Last week, Professor Jeffrey Miron joined us on Reddit for an “Ask Me Anything” conversation as part of the Learn Liberty Reddit AMA Series. The conversation focused on Dr. Miron’s 30+ years of study on the effects of drug criminalization. Check out some of the highlights below.   GPSBach While there seems to be an emerging consensus on […]

June 27, 2017 | Video

This is the journey of one North Korean survivor, Yeonmi Park, who escaped North Korea’s borders and then had to break free from its brainwashing.

June 21, 2017 | Post

Only in freedom do people have the ability to be good, but can freedom itself teach us what “goodness” means?

June 20, 2017 | Post

Steve Tennes, an orchard owner in Michigan, recently refused to host a same-sex wedding on his property. Is that his right?

June 4, 2017 | Post

One of the things that I’ve really been making the focus of this show is to show people what real, true, classical liberalism is.

June 1, 2017 | Post

Most wildlife in Africa is the property of the state. But in one country, people have found a market-based solution that seems to work.

May 29, 2017 | Post

If the problem is that the poor have too few options, it’s a bad “solution” to remove one of those options.

May 26, 2017 | Post

Can states legally prohibit religious chicken sacrifice? What about spiritual snake handling?

May 20, 2017 | Post

Wrestling with ethical issues can bring life to the economics classroom.

May 18, 2017 | Post

Cognitive psychologists have long recognized that people overestimate the occurrence of rare events. But these heuristics are not without cost.

May 8, 2017 | Video

Prof. Bryan Caplan tells Dave Rubin why he supports pacifism: the only predictable thing about war is that innocent people will get hurt. Full interview here

May 1, 2017 | Video

How much corruption can a government handle before it reaches a crisis point? Conversation between the radical Dan Carlin & Dave Rubin. Watch the full interview here. 

April 24, 2017 | Post

Virtue and liberty are both good things, and when the world is well-ordered, they are in harmony with one another. Today we often find them at odds. The friends of virtue see liberty abused in the pursuit of vices which prove self-destructive to the individual and harmful to others, while friends of liberty think the […]

April 14, 2017 | Post

Is religion totalitarian? Some claim that religious faith demands obedience from human beings in a way that necessarily excludes any freedom of choice.

April 12, 2017 | Post

Truly supporting choice means supporting the right of individuals to choose.

April 6, 2017 | Post

Classical liberalism is not specific to any code of morality. In fact, it needs and breeds moral law.

March 27, 2017 | Post

Opinions of Anne Hutchinson have, shall we say, covered the waterfront. In his masterful tome, Conceived in Liberty, 20th-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard cast her as a staunch individualist and the greatest threat to the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” John Winthrop, the 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 12th governor of the Massachusetts […]

March 26, 2017 | Post

If any part of liberalism needs revitalizing, it’s the case for liberalizing immigration. Nationalists on the left and right argue that easing immigration restrictions would make Americans worse off. During the Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders criticized open borders as a “right-wing proposal” that would “make everybody in America poorer.” And of course Donald Trump is calling […]