David Beito | Friday October 19, 2018 at 1:30 PM PDT
A matter of state’s rights?
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Tag: nationalism
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Tuesday July 17, 2018 at 11:42 AM PDT
The World Cup offers an example of assimilation and cooperation.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Tuesday October 24, 2017 at 9:15 AM PDT
The Catalan independence movement has drawn some support among libertarians. From a theoretical standpoint, any group’s attempt to break away from a larger political entity is hard to argue with. Ultimately, though, the principle of self-determination, taken to its logical extreme, would mean dissolving the state and replacing it with voluntary associations. Which is…
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William Watkins | Tuesday January 24, 2017 at 5:43 PM PST
There was much vitriol surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. One thing that struck me was the frequency with which commentators threw around the words fascism and fascist. For example, The Huffington Post warned that Trump’s Emerging Fascism Threatens the Nation; Salon chastised the country with the…
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Friday September 9, 2016 at 11:13 AM PDT
How has the world changed fifteen years after 9/11? How have these changes affected the western hemisphere and emerging countries in particular? It’s been said that the attacks marked the privatization of the “enemy.” The enemy ceased to be a state and became a group of individuals with a large degree of autonomy from…
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Tuesday May 24, 2016 at 3:41 PM PDT
Austria’s far right candidate, Norbert Hofer, has lost the second round of the election for the presidency by a mere thirty thousand votes to Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Green Party leader. Europe has breathed a sigh of relief, but the stunning success of the nationalists, who won the first round and caused…
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Abigail R. Hall | Wednesday May 20, 2015 at 6:35 AM PDT
At the airport, one observes an “interesting” composition of human behavior. A recent trip was no exception. Walking into the airport to checkin and check my bag, there was a clearly upset woman at one of the ticket kiosks. She barked at the woman behind the counter (who was assisting someone else) to come help…
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Abigail R. Hall | Wednesday February 4, 2015 at 7:48 AM PST
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Many of us will recognize these words as the “Pledge of Allegiance.” As a child in elementary and middle school, I remember saying…
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Aaron Tao | Wednesday December 17, 2014 at 4:43 PM PST
“Historically, the common form of revolution has been a not-too-efficient despotism which is overthrown by another not-too-efficient despotism with little or no effect on the public good. Indeed, except for the change in the names of the ruling circles, it would be hard to distinguish one from the other.” —Gordon Tullock For the past…
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Gabriel Gasave | Friday June 13, 2014 at 8:59 AM PDT
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the FIFA World Cup, which on June 12 kicked off its 20th tournament, this time in Brazil. Every four years this event captures the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of soccer fans around the globe. And like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, flags and national…
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