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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Jan 16, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

Casting the First Stone: Christians and Victimless Crime

Any who dare to question the legitimacy of the state must be ready to endure ridicule. Libertarian Christians, however, face what amounts to excommunication as well. Of course, to suggest anti-statis…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Oct 11, 2017, 2:31 AM UTC

Public education is insane!

I was homeschooled my whole life. Among other things, this meant I’d never had a grade before I came to college. Naturally, now that I’m a freshman and I’m getting grades, I’ve been studying with my…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Sep 9, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

Tolkien the Anarchist

The only things more beautiful than stateless societies are the works of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. It is no surprise then, that Tolkien himself was a proponent of anarchy. From a letter written to…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Sep 7, 2017, 7:11 PM UTC

Why Citing Sources Is Cool and How You Should Do It

I'm not going to lie: I hate citing my sources. It's not that I want to "steal the glory" or anything. Plagiarism is the last thing on my mind. It's just that it's so dang time-consuming to copy out…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Sep 7, 2017, 7:00 PM UTC

The Moral Failure of the Minimum Wage

Few victims of hardship earn as much sympathy as the “worker.” The great leftist Karl Marx devoted much of his Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital to an analysis of the struggles of the gentle labore…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Sep 7, 2017, 6:48 PM UTC

How Good Intentions Have Destroyed Economic Justice

The famed observer of democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, writes that, though democratic nations love freedom, “for equality they have an ardent, insatiable, eternal, invincible passion; they want equa…

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@ashortageofsand Sep 7, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Government

“In the beginning, the universe was created,” explains author Douglas Adams. He goes on to point out: “This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” Adams wro…

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ashortageofsand
@ashortageofsand Sep 7, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

Why Freedom Matters

Everyone has a purpose. It is irrelevant to our current discussion whether that purpose is something transcendent or objective, or whether it is subjective and relative to the individual. We have pur…

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