WOW! We had a great time meeting you all at the FreedomFest. While we had so much fun oiling you all up to help get you through those powerful days we were sad to see it end. Since some of you didn’t get the chance to visit us before our flights took off, we wanted…

I work for Braver Angels, America’s largest fully red/blue and grassroots-led organization promoting civil discourse, depolarization, and what you might think of as “political family therapy.” We have a dedicated national team composed of a few staff and quite a few super-volunteers, and, more importantly, a widely-dispersed network of local alliances and statewide programs that…

The pride of my modest economics rare book and historic document collection is the April 1945 issue of “The Reader’s Digest,” which featured a condensed version of F.A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. The editor’s decision 76 years ago to publish Hayek’s scholarly work for a popular audience proved to be a significant moment in economic…

7 Urgent Actions Business Owners, Marketing Directors, Non-Profit Organizations, and Political Campaigns Should Take Now to Thrive and Dominate Whether you are in the business-to-business or business-to-consumer space, non-profit or political space, you must take immediate action not only to grow in 2021, but to dramatically expand and reach market dominance. What you do now…

We must end government interference with adult consensual sex by ending the prohibition of adult consensual sex work. Decriminalization is the only legal model that gets the government out of our bedrooms and out of our business. Sex workers are people of all genders who have been fighting for our liberty for at least as…

Unless you’re in the thick of it, you might think gardening is all flowers and rainbows. Giving those flowers space to grow and protecting them from unwanted pests is part of the work we do. Plants, like people, need freedom and justice. To speak about unity, it is necessary to speak about division, as to…

You might not have noticed, but the death penalty has been in decline for decades. Half the country has done away with it, in large part thanks to Republican and Libertarian leadership and support. Of the states that still have it, over a third haven’t used it in a decade or more. On top of…

Whenever you watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali speak, she always displays a high level of passion—no matter the topic. Recently, she has seen the growing threat of “cancel culture” and the implications this woke ideology could have on freedom of speech. With the concept of cancel culture becoming more prevalent in the U.S., I’ve seen her…

Wondering what to do after you register for FreedomFest on Wednesday? Come on down to the cool, comfortable, historic Elks Theatre for our session on “Rising Up” at the Anthem Libertarian Film Festival! We’re offering several inspiring films on rising above adversity, with post-screening panels that include the directors plus Doug Casey, Matt and Terry…

During the past few years, libertarians and small-government conservatives have been targeted by self-identified “conservative climate activists.” The activists claim global warming is a crisis and conservatives must come up with conservative climate solutions to counter the Climate Left. However, the mythical climate crisis does not exist, rendering proposed solutions unnecessary and harmful. Moreover, even if climate worry…

Too often fundraising is reactive rather than proactive, hindering growth and creating a frenzied and hectic development culture. Take some time—whether it’s the beginning of the fiscal year or whenever you have time—to set goals, plans, and strategies.  Successful fundraising needs to be strategic. Too often development directors and nonprofit leaders are wearing so many…

A healthy and intact vascular system in the brain is critical for normal motor and cognitive.human functioning. Any disruption in the brain’s blood perfusion system can lead to dire consequences, as the brain neurons are deprived of glucose and oxygen and begin to become dysfunctional. An attractive hypothesis that is emerging from a number of…

Want to live in a healthy and wealthy manner in the future? You’ll need to wise up! The human mind is the source of all values, progress, achievement, and flourishing. But our minds do not function automatically. They must be educated, imaginative, innovative, inspired, and introspective. This has never been truer than now, because exponential…

James O’Keefe established Project Veritas in 2010 as a non-profit journalism enterprise to expand upon his undercover reporting work. Today, Project Veritas investigates and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more moral, ethical, and transparent society. It also engages in litigation to protect,…

History marks the summer of our 1787 Constitutional Convention as a time when our founding fathers sought balance to counteract chaos. Having witnessed 2,700 years of man’s servitude under the totalitarian rule of the divine rights of kings, these men trusted God to give their fledgling country a chance for something new. But the truth…

This is the final article in a three-part series focused on FreedomFest’s 2021 theme. Each part is a necessary foundation to the next. The premise of Part 1 is: “It’s impossible to be truly healthy if you don’t know who you are.” Accordingly, it focused on the Prevailing Mythology virtually everyone in America has fallen…

By Lawson Bader and Peter Lipsett Remember the phrase “the good old days?” It’s one that becomes more prevalent as one moves up the aging ladder. Ironically, and perhaps sadly, what was once a wistful observation about a previous era when [insert your favorite romanticized idealized action or description or hope or iconic landmark here],…

4th Of July 1776 The Continental Congress signs our Declaration of Independence from England, our mother country. Franklin and Adams recommended Jefferson draft the Declaration but they had the final say as editors. And edit they did! For the 56 people who signed the document it was an act of Treason, if caught, you could…

Ask anyone on the street what comes to mind when they hear someone arguing in favor of “privacy” and it will likely be the misconception of its use for criminal activity. This article presents to you many reasons for privacy in today’s world and the very near future’s interconnected world of personal finance. First, we…

Libertarianism and feminism make fine bedfellows—though you might not know it from talking to folks adopting either label in 21st century America. Libertarians tend to view feminism as something solely for leftists—folks always reaching for collectivist and statist solutions to social and interpersonal problems. Feminists tend to view libertarianism as a philosophy concerned with self-interest…

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for all American adults, both men and women. The American Heart Association has been instrumental in publicizing the fact that coronary artery disease is as large a medical issue for women as it is for men. Often in the past, coronary artery disease was misdiagnosed in women,…

I get this all the time: “Oh Deirdre, you’re such a conservative.” My friends seem to think politics operates exclusively on a left-right spectrum. They therefore suspect me and other self-described “libertarians” of being sneaky versions of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. In truth, libertarians sit nowhere on the left-right map, which merely captures a…

Instead of feeling resigned about international indexes having “increased their allocation to securities in authoritarian states” in recent years, Julie Cane, a former Naval aviator, spied opportunity and founded Democracy Investments. “Many investors have no idea what is in their portfolios. They just see an international index but when you look inside it. What and…

Decentralization is the only healthy way to avoid collapse, or recover from it In the twentieth century, Americans had national unity. Such unity was achieved through centralized media and the inculcation of civic narratives in the schools. This wasn’t a conspiracy so much as a sign of the times. In those days, it was possible…

Imagine if in the aftermath of a plane crash, competing airlines used the tragedy as an opportunity to undercut the airline involved in the accident. They run TV ads suggesting the airline’s incompetence led to the crash. Instead of touting what makes them a superior airline, they resort to smears. Such a thing would never happen.…

Francis Fox Piven made a striking statement in her book, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America. “Almost all of the labor, civil rights, and social welfare legislation of consequence in the industrial era,” she wrote, “was enacted in just two six-year periods: 1933-1938 and 1963-1968.” The sole exception is SSI, but even that program…

In President Joe Biden’s America, unions are ascendent. These political power players on the left have been biding their time for years, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put candidates in power who will then reward them for their loyalty. And now their dreams are becoming reality.  Today’s unions aren’t the same as your…

It is hard to find another point in American history when we have been so deeply divided about the direction of our government. The contrast between the previous and current administrations could not be more pronounced. Many people believe that government has broken the bounds of our Constitution and is trying to provide for all…

Media appearances are coveted opportunities to promote yourself, your brand, or your movement. But your excitement for the free opportunity to promote yourself is not enough. Are you ready? Surprisingly, even seasoned professional speakers, actors, writers, musicians, and other personalities or on-air talent may still have challenges with media appearances. The reason is simple: media…

Potent muscle release tool gets quick results with targeted, high frequency vibration energy “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration” –Nikolai Tesla Is pain limiting your activity? Ignoring pain can have devastating results. Health.gov recommends at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous activity…

By James Clark, Steven R. Goldring, John Norton Moore, Daniel J. Pambianco, and Guy B. Roberts Greater pandemic preparedness will require improvements in infrastructure, early warning, testing, contact tracing, enhanced communication, and international cooperation, as detailed by a recent independent task force report of the Council on Foreign Relations. But simply doing better in these…

Alexa quietly nudged my robot vacuum to life in the early hours of the morning and then started my coffee about 20 minutes before she called my name to wake me up with my favorite song, just as I had programmed her to do. My Smart Watch kept track of my heart rate and the…

FreedomFest is an intense three and a half days, and it’s different from any conference you have ever attended. This year’s theme is fitting; Healthy, Wealth & Wise. Where else can you attend yoga in the morning, listen to world-renowned speakers on finance or geo-politics after breakfast, choose from among a dozen breakout sessions with…

This article is the second of a three part series focused on FreedomFest’s 2021 theme. Part 1 is a necessary component to understanding Part 2, and both are requisite for the foundation necessary to understanding and applying Part 3. Thus, if you haven’t read Part 1, read that now, before you continue. Part 1 began…

Over the past two centuries, the Enlightenment values of reason, liberty, and free markets have unleashed the creative energies of billions of individuals. Innovators and entrepreneurs have led the way, producing more wealth during that time than had been created during all of prior human history combined. Most people in developed countries, and more and…

Well, that was an interesting year. Turns out making money isn’t as exciting if you’re locked down in a high rise drinking whiskey alone in your underwear.  My firm specializes in Cryptocurrency Retirement Accounts, so endless money printing and early stage Communist Revolution was in fact “very good for business”. Financially, we did very well, our…

In the early 2000s, Utah appeared ready to “go all in” on becoming the first state to pass legislation to create a universal school voucher program. In 2004, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jon Huntsman, who ran on a platform that included vouchers, won the election 58% to 42% over his Democratic opponent. In addition, the Republicans…

Dominant but damaged… There’s no need to show you the Circular Flow Diagram – it’s already in your head. It has dominated economic thought for a century. Yet, all along we’ve known its shortcomings: over-aggregation, static capital, instant production, and homogeneous factors.1  It places consumption before production and supports a fantasy macro world where saving is…

We all know our brains do not work as well as we age. Forgetting names, phone numbers and where we left our car keys are all natural consequences of an aging brain. Many medical researchers now believe that age-related cognitive decline is a vascular event and comes about as our brain neurons are slowly choked off by diminished blood flow to the…

I love road trips. Over the past 15 years I’ve crossed the country from coast to coast and north to south at least two dozen times. It started in 2007 when my husband wanted to send his handcrafted “Totem Pole of Economics” to FreedomFest for a talk he was giving on Keynes, Smith and Marx.…

Ask yourself these three questions, “Who are you?” “Do you have a social security number?” “What do you own?” The thing people generally call the “United States Government” doesn’t come close to honoring the Constitution or the Constitutional Republic it formed; thus, in this article, I call that thing: “Corp. U.S.” (to see more on why,…

“You won’t get any dancing here, it’s illegal.” That’s a line from the 1984 film “Footloose” starring a then very young Kevin Bacon with the very cool character name “Ren McCormack.” Now, I know I am biased here, given my alter ego is “Renaissance Man,” and given that a certain cadre of in-the-know friends actually…

About thirty years ago, my mother gave my then-new bride and me what has become over the years one of our most use-worn cookbooks: The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook. Being someone at the time who enjoyed eating whatever I wanted, a cookbook with the word “diet” in it would not normally have grabbed my attention. But,…

Back in 2018, I made a simple observation: we have to be prepared for an economic Melt-Up, not a Meltdown. A year later, as I shared in a 2019 article, our country was headed towards a “melt-up” or a sharp and unexpected rise in prices, even before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Anyone watching the dial…

Uncertain is a perfect word to describe the way many American citizens are feeling right now as we start to accept that the COVID-19 response will seriously affect generations to come. Schools are cancelled, restaurants are closed, and in some places you are not allowed to walk down the street to let your dog take…

Imagine a future in which you rarely visit a doctor, in which your joy of life and bank account are not drained as you age, in which you live well past a hundred in good health, vibrant in mind and body. Imagine that the words you are reading are not click bait or science fiction.…

“What should we do tonight?” one of my college friends asked on a rainy Saturday night in 1977. After a few rounds of “I dunno, wudda you wanna do,” someone plucked the campus newspaper from his backpack and looked at the movie ads. (For you millennials out there, that’s the mid-twentieth century analog version of…

Are you ready to feel joy again, to embrace your connections and to feel strong and healthy in your body? Let’s honor this past year of challenge by building a renewed commitment to well being, freedom and abundance for all. Let’s celebrate our ability to adapt and persevere! Yoga is an excellent way to honor…

Currently, the greatest threat to human thriving isn’t government, believe it or not. Yes, government remains a problem, but it’s also dead on its feet in several ways. I’ll save that discussion for another time, but I believe that government and war are losing their underpinnings. Likewise disease and famine are shadows of their former…