Private Property Comes from Scarcity, Not Law
The socialist elites that dominate our institutions insist that private property is nothing more than a social construct held together by violence. As usual, they misunderstand that scarcity itself, which…
Resisting the Brave New Culture
Murray Rothbard noted that the culture wars are not the result of conservative intransigence but rather of progressive elites’ insistence on forcing new cultural rules on people who don’t want…
The State’s Best-Kept Secret
What does the state do when in a financial fix? Unlike the rest of us, it legally counterfeits. By so doing, it transfers wealth to those who are politically connected—and…
The Fallacies of Conservative Protectionists
In its attempt to claim that the concept of free trade is full of fallacies, The American Compass builds its anti-free trade case upon…fallacies.
The Problem with Juneteenth
The abolition of chattel slavery was a great advancement for human liberty. But many of those celebrating Juneteenth today still accept the core assumptions that underlie slavery.
Joe Biden’s Reverse Robin Hood Student Debt Cancellation
President Biden’s student loan forgiveness scheme is really Robin Hood in reverse, transferring wealth from people from lower-income groups to those who are relatively affluent.
Are Bump Stock Bans Useful?
Jeffrey Miron Bump stocks are devices that enable semi‐automatic weapons to fire faster—although still slower than—fully automatic weapons. Bump stocks became the target of legal and public scrutiny after a gunman…
How a Limited State Becomes an Unlimited, Administrative State
The executive power in the United States is no longer a coequal power; it is the dominant power in the land, as Empire requires.
The Government Can’t Target TikTok Because of the Speech it Carries
Thomas A. Berry In April, President Biden signed an unprecedented law that required TikTok to either “divest” from its parent company ByteDance by January 2025 or cease operations in the…