“Freedom” is a slippery concept. Is having freedom having choices? Is that freedom? Is freedom, as Princeton’s Wordnet suggests, “the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints"? I, personally, like that definition. It suggests that the presence of limitations indicate an absence of freedom.

Of course, some people think that freedom is an illusion. I tend to think that freedom is not so much an illusion as it is a circumstance that cannot be fully manifested for everyone at all times. (Some “utopiists” may disagree.) That being said, freedom is ultimately each individual’s inherent right. It’s the nature of humanity– that we may choose to evaluate the costs (extreme though they sometimes may be) of any decision and act in spite of the costs.

It’s my opinion, and that of many of my fellow libertarians, that the widest and fairest distribution of freedom exists in a society with a limited government which only mediates the direct conflicts of two or more entities’ individual freedom. The economics that would fuel such a society would inherently be a capitalist system of free markets.

Having such an opinion, I’ve developed this weblog to pontificate about, and hopefully to discuss, capitalism and the society it breeds. I hope you’ll join me.