libertarianarts

Cannabis Creative Contest Week 2: "Malice in Wonderland"

Below is my entry for the Cannabis Creative Contest Week 2 hosted by @jgvinstl. The poem entry must be cannabis-themed (check) and at least four stanzas (check). If you're planning to enter, the dead…

An Ode to the Minimum Wage

When Bernie Sanders hires help, economies hold sway: those promises of fifteen bucks an hour fade away. The Democrats, politically, think minimums should rise but budgets soon destroy the dreams of s…

Poem: Withdrawals

A Sonnet: Inflationary Currency

Note the play on the word "currencies" in each of the first three stanzas: (in)cur and seize current, seas currants ease Yes! I have two accounts on Steemit and Neoxian City: @geke for the venns, mil…

Mario Vargas Llosa: The Elder Statesman of Latin American Literature

From the New York Times: "In truth, Vargas Llosa’s politics are closer to libertarian..." http://nyti.ms/2FzWtpU

Goethe on national greatness

Goethe believed "free trade and free cultural exchange" were necessary and he "fought against the expansion, centralization, and unification of government." https://mises.org/library/goethe-national-…

Rewriting the 'women's history' of Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston was clearly a libertarian author, but revisionists don't like that: Alice Walker wrote, "I think we are better off if we think of Zora Neale Hurston as an artist, period..." http://bit.ly/2pU…

Walt Whitman was a libertarian

"Government is at best but a necessary evil; and the less we have of it, the better." - Walt Whitman https://mises.org/wire/walt-whitman-libertarian

Goodreads Book List: literary libertarians

192 books on the Literary Libertarians list; some, disappointingly, are non-fiction. Heinlein features heavily. Coulter coming in above Mises... a travesty. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10743.…

Liberty and Art: how and why libertarians have failed

"Liberty is ideal for freeing the human spirit, but we really haven’t used it very well." https://www.freemansperspective.com/liberty-art/