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Love Liberty? Learn to Argue.
After spending Thanksgiving with my family, a group consisting of one liberal democrat, one moderate, one libertarian, and one “Rush Limbaugh” conservative, I had the chance to think about how people...
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The Ferguson Protesters vs. the Liberal Left
The protests that began in Ferguson against a government and a legal system that systematically work to oppress minorities and the disadvantaged have continued, now inflamed by the decision not to...
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Anti-Government Movements
The past five years have seen four major anti-government movements gain momentum. These movements have not been revolutionary movements, but rather movements that pushed to limit the scope of...
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Individual Liberties and the Right to Die
About three months ago, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard ended her life. Diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, her prognosis was less than grim, with the average life expectancy of similar patients about...
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Harvard Professor’s Latest ‘Heresy’ Throws Water on Obama EPA’s Climate Policy
Is Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe trying to become the liberal who is most despised by other liberals? It might sound odd to hear such a question asked about an academic who once...
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Campaign Finance Reform—After I’m Elected
Who knew that the New York Times had embraced irony? In a news piece—not its opinion page—”Clinton Fundraisers Show Scope of Family Network“: WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton is tapping some of the...
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Progressivism: Rhetoric versus Reality
Contemporary supporters of an expanded role for government are increasingly moving away from calling themselves liberals and toward referring to themselves Progressives, so it is worth considering what...
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What Memorial Day Should Mean
This Memorial Day we remember and honor our fellow citizens who were willing to defend our American liberties to the death. Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman was a leading proponent of...
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Obama Appointee Supports Individual Rights
I’ve been critical of the Obama administration in the past, so it’s nice to find something positive to say. This article says that President Obama’s new acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil...
View ArticleGovernment-Run Preschool Is a Dead End, Not a Lifeline
Greater economic equality requires the “lifeline” of more government-funded preschool for disadvantaged children, says Nobel Prize–winning economist James Heckman in his New York Times editorial last...
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Intergenerational Transfers and Political Support for the Welfare State
Supporters of the welfare state might see it as a mechanism for transferring income from rich to poor with the idea of helping those at the bottom end of the income distribution, but in the United...
View Article“Creepy Uncle Sam” Obamacare Care-nival
To follow up on the superb “Creepy Uncle Sam” videos satirizing Obamacare (see here and here), the new “Something Creepy This Way Comes: Creepy Uncle Sam Obamacare Care-nival” has now gone viral on the...
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Debunking Democracy with James M. Buchanan
Among the first questions young people ask upon their political awakening is one that should concern Americans of all ages: Why don’t democratic governments operate the way our civic classes taught us?...
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