Friday, August 26, 2022

TGIF: Jefferson on Not Trusting the State

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Regardless of written constitutions and the laws on the books, individual liberty is always at risk. And as liberty goes, so goes our capaci...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Talking Over the Beefed-Up IRS

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Scott Horton and I discussed the ominous changes in store for middle-income taxpayers under the Inflation Reduction Act. Listen here .
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Friday, August 19, 2022

TGIF: The Coming New and Improved IRS

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The brilliant people in the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have decided that one thing America really needs is an Internal Reven...
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Friday, August 05, 2022

TGIF: About Those January 6 Committee Extravaganzas

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I admit it: I watched nearly every moment of the House committee extravaganzas on the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. I did more than th...
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Thursday, August 04, 2022

How Times Have Changed

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It was once regarded as condescending to humor other people by pretending to accept their fictions about themselves. Today it’s regarded as ...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

TGIF: The Limits of Ideology

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I have defended the idea of ideology per se and have disparaged the idea that anyone can operate without an ideology. The self-proclaimed n...
Friday, July 22, 2022

TGIF: Compete Liberalism

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Many people formerly of the left, who have bid good riddance to their former political home, believe they can retain the mantle of authentic...
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Friday, July 15, 2022

TGIF: Social Order through Liberty

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Human beings are self-actualizing social animals. We need to cooperate with others to flourish fully and (but?) we also need the freedom to ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2022

Orwell Updated

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Conformity is diversity. Exclusion is inclusion. Toleration is oppression.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Richard Cobden on the Link between Free Trade and Peace

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I see in the Free-trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe,—drawing men toget...
Friday, July 08, 2022

TGIF: Why Can't You Shout "Fire!" in the Virtual Public Square?

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Almost 10 years ago the free-speech champion Trevor Timm, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the time and now with the Free of the P...
Friday, July 01, 2022

TGIF: Abortion Rights v. Abortion Permissions

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Even if you cringe at last week's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, it would be wrong to say that the five Supreme Court j...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right

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Foreword: I wrote this article when I worked for the Cato Institute in the early 1990s. I post it here because I think it is relevant to th...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

Privacy and the Constitution

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"[B]oth the [']liberals['] and the conservatives misunderstand privacy. The conservatives engage in a narrow and unnatural read...
Friday, June 24, 2022

TGIF: Parents Should Govern Their Kids' Education

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How clear are these opening words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohi...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

TGIF: Free Exchange Is Win-Win

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With the possible exception of the political class and its cronies, most of us would be healthier, wealthier, happier, and freer if the publ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2022

Can't We All Get Along?

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We ought to be able to discuss how to reasonably accommodate "trans-gender" people without gaslighting the public about well-estab...
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Friday, June 10, 2022

TGIF: The Libertarian Solution

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"What's the libertarian solution to social or economic problem X? How about problem Y or Z?" No libertarian needs to wait long...
Friday, June 03, 2022

TGIF: Heartless Immigration Restrictions Need Replacing

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Some elements of the right-wing are spreading the fear that Democrats are engineering a take-over of America by replacing white voters with ...