Suppressing Discussion Doesn’t Solve the Problem. It is the Problem

by Thomas L. Knapp Everywhere one looks these days, the world seems to be moving away from debate on contentious subjects and toward demands that those who have unpopular opinions — or even just ask impertinent questions — be forcibly silenced. “You will never hear me mention his name,” prime minister Jacinda Ardern said […]
L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE: Remember Who Was First

By L. Neil Smith . . Tom Tancredo is a five-term former U.S. congressman from Colorado. In some ways, he’s the right wing’s answer to former Democratic governor Dick Lamm, offering swift, unconventional, unexpected, solutions to socio-economic, and political problems. Following 9/11, he proposed threatening the Muslem world — should there ever be another such […]
L. Neil Smith’s THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE: Letter to Matilda

By L. Neil Smith The concept of an absolute human right to freedom of expression is not uniquely American. It was born in the English-speaking world sometime between _Magna Carta_ and the Declaration of Independence, and all English-speaking countries — Great Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, among others, are heirs to […]

















