Charlie Gard and Universal Care

Charlie Gard’s healthcare is not a debate for the public square. Medical situations should stay between patients and doctors. By now almost everyone has heard the tragic story of Charlie Gard, a baby with mitochondrial depletion syndrome who lives in the UK. Because Charlie was born in the UK, which has universal healthcare, the state […]

Don’t Follow Your Heart

As a society, we will only be successful if we master our emotions. And we must teach our children to do the same.

Ideas for Healthcare Reform

Healthcare is one of the only industries where the product is considered a “right” by some. Unfortunately, this creates some problems for the delivery of that product, because as soon as one considers it a “right,” it is necessary to force someone to provide it, which removes liberty (which is definitely a right). Rights are […]

Laws Don’t Stop Crime; People Do

Every time there’s a shooting, our nation enters an increasingly polarizing conversation about what we can do about “gun violence.” The Right says the Left has no right to take away one’s right to self-defense, and the Left says the Right has no right to endanger the public. But as usual, both are having the […]

The Root Cause of Riots

In the wake of violent riots in Baltimore, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts placed the blame on high school students who “thought it was cute to throw cinder blocks at police.” He ordered parents to “Take control of your kids.” Yet it’s fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that this is unlikely to happen. Parents […]

Divorcing from Government: A Libertarian Solution to the Marriage Debate

The Marriage Debate can be solved by a simple libertarian solution: divorce. It might sound drastic, but in my opinion, it is the only way to ensure that liberty is protected for all peoples. Currently there are two main camps in the Marriage Debate: 1) This camp believes in traditional marriage, or in other words, […]

The Free Market: A Fix for Almost Anything

Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which was signed into law recently, has created a firestorm of controversy. Gay rights activists and pretty much every media outlet in America has lambasted this act as a step backward, not a step forward. It has been likened to Jim Crow laws, spurned boycotts from actual governors of […]

Choose the Right: How Libertarianism and Mormonism Intersect

“I didn’t know the good Lord considered Christian values to be voluntary.” I was engaged in yet another pointless Facebook debate with one of my liberal friends whose minds I am never going to change when this statement was made. It was a light bulb moment. I realized that the root cause of our disagreement […]

Bid 2016: How to Beat Progressives

This morning, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz announced his bid for the 2016 Presidential Election. He will have significant competition, but not just from Democrats. Republicans Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, and Scott Walker, among others, are also serious contenders who have not yet officially announced their candidacy. But the greatest threat to liberty, in my […]

What is “Fair”?

In this modern social and political climate we hear a lot of talk about what’s “fair.” Those engaging in this argument usually fit into one of two camps: 1) This camp believes that every human being who is alive and breathing deserves a certain standard of “decency,” arbitrarily set by some third party (usually the […]