Archive for Gary Chartier

Gary Chartier is an associate professor of law and business ethics at La Sierra University. His latest book is The Conscience of an Anarchist (Cobden Books, 2011).

What’s Wrong with Right-to-Work

The Indiana legislature recently approved a “right to work” law, the 23rd of its kind in the United States. A “union shop” agreement between an employer and a union commits the employer to ensuring that new hires join the union within a specified period. Right-to-work laws ban union-shop agreements. Let’s put it another way: They [...]

26Apr2012 | | 13 comments | Continued

Government Is No Friend of the Poor

You’ve heard it all too many times to count, I suspect. Apologists for big government—the New York Times’s Paul Krugman and Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson being good recent examples—are convinced there’s just no good alternative to government social services. Without the government, people will go hungry. They’ll die in the streets. We’ll lapse back into [...]

4Jan2012 | | 23 comments | Continued

The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It

Class is a libertarian issue. Classical liberals Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer pioneered class analysis before Karl Marx, and he gave them credit for doing so. Class was a central feature of the work of such libertarian stalwarts as Franz Oppenheimer, Albert Jay Nock, and Frank Chodorov, former editor of The Freeman. Class theory formed the [...]

24Aug2011 | | 5 comments | Continued

Anti-Interventionism Is Cold Indifference?

Presidents frequently garner applause when they go to war. Violence as a knee-jerk response to a crisis—do anything, but do something!—is surprisingly popular. Pundits doubtless expect that they too will reap acclaim for urging action, whether or not it’s well considered. Who wants to be thought of as a bump on a log, after all? [...]

22Jun2011 | | 3 comments | Continued

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