We’ve established a precedent that big government is in control and can, upon questionable pretext, exert its will.
Latest COVID-19 Posts
We cannot expect to live in a just society if all it takes to get a pass on murder is a badge.
If you watch the news, you’d think the world is coming to an end. Are we really as divided as they’re making us out to be? Maybe we’re more united than ever.
Matt Kibbe sits down with Matt Ridley, author of “How Innovation Works,” to talk about the mysterious process of economic and technological progress.
The Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Beatles, and many more iconic bands never stopped playing during the 1968 pandemic.
The more we mistakenly ask for “governmental help,” the more authoritarianism we get as we lose our civil and economic liberties.
Since we’re no longer allowed to go out and listen to live music, we’re bringing the live music to you!
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
We Can’t Neglect Cancer During COVID-19 | Guest: Dr. Pat Basu | Ep 67
While it’s important to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we can’t forget about the other health care issues people are dealing with.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic has lead to governments immediately stripping away many onerous regulations to help ease the burdens on their citizens.
Partisanship will be the driving force on how the history of this crisis will be recorded.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s policies for nursing homes during COVID-19 have had disastrous results.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
How Do We Feed America During COVID-19? | Guests: Rep. Thomas Massie & Joel Salatin | Ep 66
Matt Kibbe sits down with self-described Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin and Rep. Thomas Massie to talk about the food shortages Americans are experiencing as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.
What’s so different today? Where’s the spirit of ‘68? Have we really become this fragile?
Freedom of religion has always been a cornerstone of the American system, and we should be very careful before we agree to give it up.
Fight for your dreams, know what you want, do what you love, innovate, learn to say no, and never disappoint your 16-year-old self.
Free the People is teaming up with AIER for this week's Liberty Pub Happy Hour.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
The Only Thing That Unites the Left Is Government | Guest: Dave Rubin | Ep 65
Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report and author of “Don’t Burn This Book,” sits down with Matt Kibbe to discuss the political Left’s response to the coronavirus.
Calling a product or a service a “human right” does not magically render it immune to scarcity.
The party of principled conservative family values is now the party of cognitive dissonance.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
COVID-19 Creates Opportunities for Justice Reform | Guests: Kathleen McGoey & Mike Butler | Ep 64
Matt Kibbe is joined by Kathleen McGoey and police Chief Mike Butler, to discuss how one Colorado city is revolutionizing the criminal justice system.
Free the People's award-winning documentary film, How to Love Your Enemy: A Restorative Justice Story, is available for one-night-only—Thursday 4/30 at 8PM ET on YouTube.
As bad as things are, one benefit of eliminating the status quo in justice provision is that alternatives suddenly become a lot more visible.
Feds are prone to one-size-fits-all proposals and intrusive, sweeping action that hurts the very people it claims to help.
Quarantine getting you down? Free the People had our first virtual happy hour—Liberty Pub—this week.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Is Cooperation or Coercion the Answer to COVID-19? | Guests: Antony Davies & James Harrigan | Ep 63
Matt Kibbe is joined by economist Antony Davies and political scientist James Harrigan, hosts of the popular Words & Numbers podcast.
We are told to defer to bureaucrats and politicians—the experts best suited to manage the COVID-19 crisis. But they are the ones who have failed, catastrophically, every step of the way.
With the record unemployment rates we’re seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the shutdown could have a direct cost on American lives. This is why economic liberty matters.
Our nation’s governmental emergency management apparatus was built in exchange for local autonomy. Is it any wonder that we are woefully underprepared for COVID-19?
Schools are shut down and parents are trying to educate at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Matt Kibbe gets some sage advice from Free-Range Kids founder Lenore Skenazy.
I believe that most parents would be shocked if they realized what went on in these large school systems and the propaganda that their children receive daily.
News outlets have been repeatedly caught misrepresenting the COVID-19 pandemic to paint a picture that is worse than what Americans can actually observe with their own eyes.
Central planning, whether coming from the Left under socialism or the Right under populism, spells disaster for our liberty
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Ways to Help Your Kids Learn During Quarantine | Guest: Kerry McDonald | Ep 62
Still on COVID-19 lockdown, Matt Kibbe is joined by Kerry McDonald, author of “Unschooled,” to talk about alternative education strategies during the coronavirus quarantine.
There is nothing immoral about accepting government funding; the danger lies in the strings attached.
The public education system is bought and paid for by the government, with your tax dollars of course, but the government is in charge.
These are certainly strange times for everyone including those of us that have been homeschooling for years.
Moms and Dads everywhere are panicking as they try and figure out what they will do with their kids for the next month while we are quarantined.
It has been alarming to see how willingly Americans are sacrificing their liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s troubling to think that Americans have become prisoners in their own homes, placed under indefinite house arrest without any sort of due process.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Mayor Says Coronavirus Lockdown Has Trade-offs | Guest: Glenn Jacobs | Ep 61
Matt Kibbe is joined via Skype by Glenn Jacobs, the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, to discuss how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
Who should decide how doctors and hospitals allocate critical health services? Matt Kibbe asks the tough questions nobody seems to be asking during this pandemic.
At this time, we are still in the thick of the continued spread of the coronavirus, with no determined end in sight.
Giving up property rights during COVID-19 may seem like a good temporary solution, but if we look at history, this strategy has always made things worse.
Well-meaning but dangerously misguided one-size-fits-all directives are creating huge disruptions in the provision of needed care.
As people lose their jobs, their communities, and their sense of hope overnight, the actions of these entrepreneurs are nothing short of heroic.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Educate Yourself on COVID-19 Predictions | Guest: Phillip Magness | Ep 60
As the quarantine continues, Matt Kibbe is joined by Phillip Magness, a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research.
We have to balance the opinions of doctors with those from a wide variety of other relevant fields.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Massie Stands Alone on COVID-19 Bailout | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 59
In this bonus episode of Kibbe on Liberty, Rep. Thomas Massie joins Matt Kibbe to give a play-by-play of his stand against the COVID-19 bailout bill.
Government seems to have a history of taking societal problems and crisis and catastrophically making them worse by legislating one size fits all solutions.
To combat the coronavirus, state governments are taking drastic steps that are severely impacting the lives of their citizens.
Article, COVID-19
South Korea Proves We Don’t Have to Shut Down the Economy to Curb Coronavirus Transmission
Evidence continues to pour out of South Korea demonstrating that their model is the most effective means to contain the coronavirus.
When Rep. Massie raised his lone voice to demand an on-the-record vote, everyone immediately freaked out, and President Trump lashed out at him personally on Twitter.
Politicians and news outlets will tout this stimulus bill as the long-awaited solution and victory for our country.
What does it mean to be a leader, and how can we evaluate leadership during a crisis, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic?
The highly politicized criticism of Senator Rand Paul creates perverse incentives for the rest of us to never get tested, or to even admit to symptoms.
Podcast, COVID-19, Kibbe on Liberty
Coronavirus Response Is a Central Planning Nightmare | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 58
In this special quarantine edition of Kibbe on Liberty, Matt Kibbe is joined via Skype by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) to discuss the COVID-19 virus and the government’s response to it.
This bill is chock full of crony kickbacks, lobbyist handouts, and a wish list of progressive policies that have nothing to do with COVID-19.
By now, everybody’s beginning to go a little nuts from being cooped up indoors.
Is school really necessary? I suspect many of us are about to find out.
Matt Kibbe makes some sense of the coronavirus outbreak and economic implications of rash political decisions.
There are simple things states and other officials can implement that would be a carrot approach, instead of a stick approach, to maximize social distancing.
When the wheels come off, we see that the rules we thought we needed actually make things worse, not better.
The stock market is reeling. Fortunes are being lost, unemployment rates are surging, the Federal Reserve is devaluing the dollar with its inflationary practices and there’s no telling how extensive or long lasting the economic damage will be.
We can’t mandate more of the medical goods and services we need into existence, but politicians could mandate them away if they’re not thoughtful in their attempts to “do something” decisive.
Article, COVID-19
Politicians Cannot Save You from the Coronavirus, but They May Make Things Worse by Trying
As Americans, if we truly love freedom as we say we do, then at this point our government’s measures should urge us to ask ourselves: why are we copying China and not South Korea?