Adam Dick

Thursday on the Tom Woods Show, host Tom Woods asked libertarian communicator Ron Paul what one book Paul would suggest someone read as an introduction to Paul’s views. Paul responded that he would suggest The Law by Frédéric Bastiat.

Paul says in the interview that The Law’s advantages as a book introducing people to new ideas include that The Law is a rather simple book and that it has a focus on making “one crystal clear point.” Paul explains that the point The Law addresses so well is “the principle on nonaggression,” which holds that “we can’t do harm to anybody else and the government shouldn’t be able to do it either.”

Continue reading →

Interviewed last week at the Democratic National Convention, two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich offered a succinct explanation of what the United States government can do to diminish terrorism. “If we want to diminish terrorism in the world, stop funding it,” says Kucinich in the interview with Nicholas Ballasy.

Continue reading →

A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Friday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

Listen to the new episode here:

Read a transcript of the new episode, including links to further information regarding the topics discussed, here:

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity welcomes you to Five Minutes Five Issues.

Starting in five four three two one.

Continue reading →

Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who in 2004 and 2008 sought the Democratic presidential nomination, says that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) should consider withdrawing Sanders’ endorsement of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton given new revelations of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) unfair treatment of Sanders in the party’s 2016 presidential nomination contest.

Continue reading →

My new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government has been published. Here is the publication announcement from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity website:

Ron Paul Institute Senior Fellow Adam Dick’s new book A Tipping Point for Liberty: Exposing and Defeating Leviathan Government was published this week. Dick’s new book frankly explores the battle between overbearing government, both at home and abroad, and individuals’ aspirations for liberty. In A Tipping Point for Liberty, Dick describes in detail the dangers from leviathan government and presents reasons for optimism.

Before joining RPI, Dick worked in the United States House of Representatives office of Rep. Ron Paul for nearly ten years. There, Dick concentrated on matters including the drug war, free speech, and gun rights that are focuses of A Tipping Point for Liberty. Dick’s book, drawn from his hundreds of RPI articles, explores in detail several other aspects of the modern America as well, including militarism, police misconduct, and mass surveillance.

Dick, whose experience includes managing one of the most successful Libertarian Party governor campaigns, also delivers in A Tipping Point for Liberty well-informed insights on libertarianism and Paul’s unique place in the liberty movement.

Paul, in his forward to Dick’s new book, says “A Tipping Point for Liberty expertly applies the freedom philosophy to current events” and “is an important tool for spreading the education needed to ensure we can move onward to a world of liberty, peace, and prosperity.”

Others are praising A Tipping Point for Liberty as well. Jacob G. Hornberger, the president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, writes that he is hopeful that A Tipping Point for Liberty “will open more people’s eyes as to what is happening to our country and to what we need to do to get our nation back on the right track.” Robert Wenzel of the popular websites Economic Policy Journal and Target Liberty also offers early praise for Dick’s new book. Wenzel writes:

Buy this book if you need to learn how government fails us. Buy this book if you want to learn how to defend liberty. Dick is a brilliant wordsmith for liberty. His prose hits like fireworks on every page. You won’t be able to stop turning the pages. I couldn’t.

A Tipping Point for Liberty is available at Amazon.com here.

Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.