Tag Archives: History of Liberty

Limited government: myth or future fact?

Posted on November 19, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

Editor’s note: we continue to be on a limited schedule due to travel and work. Please bear with us! As anarchists, we here at The Price of Liberty are opposed to any and all mandatory human government. From a “one-world” … Continue reading →

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Seventy years of decay or improvement?

Posted on July 26, 2025 by TPOL Nathan

In 1955, the Fifty States – and the world – were far different places than the States here in 2025 or the world today. As freedom goes, as liberty is found or lost, we sometimes think everything is worse today … Continue reading →

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Origins of the state

Posted on January 4, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

In a recent commentary, Dan Sanchez (originally published in his Substack publication “Letters on Liberty) briefly examined two competing libertarian ideas on how the state (government) began. (He provided a postscript here.) Let us delve a bit deeper into the … Continue reading →

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Why do we have liberty? freedom?

Posted on January 3, 2023 by TPOL Nathan

Liberty, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary online, is “the quality or state of being free: a : the power to do as one pleases, b : freedom from physical restraint, c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, d : the positive enjoyment of … Continue reading →

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A Baker’s Dozen ™ Economic Lies

Posted on November 26, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

Some common lies spouted by governments, public education institutions, and financial institutions, among others: 1. The US Constitution’s “general welfare” clause means Congress may pass whatever legislation it thinks will help the country. Actually, the Preamble (in which this phrase … Continue reading →

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Looking back – Fall of the British Empire

Posted on September 5, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

In the rapid decline and collapse of the British Empire, the United Kingdom, and England itself in the 20th Century, one figure dominates the events of the era. That man is Winston Churchill. His life covers both the height of … Continue reading →

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Libertarian Lessons Learned: the Knights Templar

Posted on February 4, 2022 by TPOL Nathan

NOTE: This may be the first of a new, occasional series of commentaries looking at events and organizations of the past with the idea of learning lessons from what they did, good or bad. So that we lovers of liberty … Continue reading →

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