Barnes v. Felix Brief: Officers Must Be Held Accountable for Needless Deadly Force
Matthew Cavedon Ashtian Barnes was driving a car his girlfriend rented, which had unpaid toll fees. Constable Felix stopped him. When the car started to pull away, Constable Felix decided to…
Lysander Spooner’s Flawed War on Poverty
Lysander Spooner was one of this country’s most important libertarians. His views on economics, while flawed, are free market in principle and have some insights Austrians can appreciate.
Big Government Doesn’t Want You to Think about “What Is Not Seen”
Michael Chapman In the new Cato Institute book, Build, Baby, Build, author Bryan Caplan uses Frederich Bastiat’s economic axiom about what is seen vs. what is not seen to explain,…
The UK Blood Scandal Exposes British Elites
The tainted blood scandal in the UK should be a warning to people about the dangers of the National Health Service. Instead, we hear endless promises of reform that never…
Caitlin Clark, Bullying and the Business of Basketball
Caitlin Clark, with her array of basketball skills, has filled arenas in her inaugural WNBA season. However, the idea of merit clashes with the leftist, egalitarian mindset that dominates in…
Who Needs the Fed?
The Fed claims—always without evidence—that everything “would have been worse” without the Fed. Yet history has shown otherwise.
The American Empire
The Roman Empire never doubted that it was the defender of civilization. Americans have added freedom and democracy. Yet the more that may be added to it the more it…
Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom
The ruling classes insist that a country with a democratic government is also a free country. However, democracies also can be tyrannical and despotic. After all, in the final analysis,…