Consequences of a Refusal to Recognize Our Creator
Can an ungodly society be a free society? This question has kept busy both philosophers and pastors for ages. Whether the bondage of sin correlates to, or causes, the bondage of statism is a subject of...
View ArticleWhy Religious Liberty is the Wrong Fight to Pick
There’s been heavy debate regarding religious liberty in the past several years, specifically in relation to the mandate under Obamacare for employers to provide contraception and the surging movement...
View ArticleThe Constitution was a Means, Not an End
After several generations of preceding philosophical musings and political pamphleteering, a group of American colonists revolted against the most powerful empire in the world. It’s quite staggering to...
View ArticleDon’t Confuse Progress With Apostasy
In my last post, I argued that ideally we should progress past the point of constitutionalism and find even better ways to secure individual liberty and promote the common good. But I was careful not...
View ArticleLibertarianism Does Not Mean “Live and Let Live”
Critics of libertarianism—and there are many—object to the supposed “selfishness” they believe is at the core of the political philosophy. It is common, in reviewing their complaints, to see...
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The Public Relations Meltdown Regarding a Renouncing of War
The events of 9/11 served as a catalyst for the neocolonial interventionist power brokers in government to advance their agenda. In the months that followed, fabrications and talking points...
View ArticleWhy I Now Remain Silent During the Pledge of Allegiance
Four years ago I wrote an article explaining the sordid history of the pledge of allegiance and the modification I made to its words to make it more palatable to me. For a couple of years I used this...
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After Ferguson, Then What?
Cheye Calvo was the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, in 2008 when law enforcement officers raided his home as part of a botched drug raid. The mayor and his mother-in-law were held at gunpoint, and...
View ArticleIn the Shadows of the Unknown
The following article was published in this month’s edition of The Freeman by The Foundation for Economic Education. It was written, in part, to publicize the forthcoming publication of Feardom. Your...
View ArticleForced Taxation to Fund Schools — For the Good of Society?
I received my annual property tax notice in the mail last week, informing me of the amount of my hard-earned money that the government was demanding I submit, without mercy or exception. The penalty...
View ArticleTransparency, simplicity, publicity: Words for GOP to live by in 2015
The following op-ed was published this week by Fox News. It was written, in part, to publicize the forthcoming publication of Feardom. Every Republican newly elected to the U.S. Senate shares at least...
View ArticleChanging Deckhands or Direction?
The following op-ed was published this past weekend by the Daily Herald. The ballot box provides American citizens an opportunity to indicate their support for or opposition to a variety of political...
View ArticleAn Open Apology to Glenn Beck
The invite was received. The plane tickets were purchased. The questions were prepared, and I was set to go. Tomorrow, I was going to fly to Texas to appear on Glenn Beck’s TV program. Those plans,...
View ArticleTorture is okay, because hey, we’re awesome!
After four years and forty million dollars, a Senate committee released a report last week summarizing its findings and views of the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture against alleged...
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Mormons Making Friends with the Nazi Mammon of Unrighteousness
In June 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, a convention of some seven thousand Jehovah’s Witnesses convened in Berlin. They unanimously adopted “A Declaration of...
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Mormons and Medical Marijuana
As Libertas Institute has become a leading force in the effort to legalize medical marijuana in Utah—the backyard of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—I’ve been paying attention more...
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Religion and the State: Can Latter-day Man Serve Two Masters?
The Jews decided to kill Jesus Christ. It was thought by many Sadducees—the aristocratic class controlling the Sanhedrin, Israel’s highest political body—that this act would squash the uprising and...
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The Great and Abominable Church… of Caesar
Two prophets, half a world and hundreds of centuries apart, were shown a detailed vision of the future. Nephi and John’s shared experience detailed many significant events, some of which yet remain in...
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Sex and the State: An Analysis of Consent
One of the most fundamental aspects of a legitimate government is having the consent of the governed—a point made clear in the Declaration of Independence. But you and I have never had a meaningful...
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Why Does My Church Oppose Medical Marijuana?
In February I found myself in a private meeting with the infamous “home teachers”—the somewhat pejorative nickname given to the two lobbyists employed by the LDS Church to influence politics in Utah....
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