Friday, September 29, 2023

TGIF: Limited Government's Bait and Switch

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In a fundamental respect, libertarian minarchism (minimal, or limited, government) and market anarchism (or anarcho-capitalism) have somethi...
Friday, September 22, 2023

TGIF: Hurrah for Real Globalization!

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Globalization, like the free market and classical liberalism generally, isn't wildly popular these days, is it? People blame globalizati...
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Friday, September 15, 2023

TGIF: Free Speech Affirmed -- Pretty Much

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The preliminary injunction against federal censorship of social-media users has survived the Biden administration's appeal. However, it ...
Friday, September 08, 2023

TGIF: Who Rules? That Is Not the Question

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Today's two major contenders for political power seem to be elitists and populists. Funnily enough, both types are present in each of th...
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Friday, September 01, 2023

TGIF: Tribalism and the Dark Art of the Package Deal

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Tribalism not only lives; it rules -- even more than I thought! I've been reading Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis's book The Myth of Le...
Friday, August 25, 2023

TGIF: Why the State Is Corrupt

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Why is government corrupt? You'll notice that I did not ask, "Is government corrupt." We've had enough experience to go ri...
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Friday, August 18, 2023

TGIF: On "Giving Back"

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P&G, the maker of popular household brands like Tide and Downy laundry products, is giving away $10,000 in college scholarships. That...
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Friday, August 11, 2023

TGIF: Why Liberty Matters

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Why does liberty matter? It’s a fair question because, after all, not everyone thinks it matters very much, perhaps beyond some very basic p...
Friday, August 04, 2023

TGIF: Shame on Government for Censoring Us

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Alas, federal District Judge Terry A. Doughty's preliminary injunction against government censorship of us on social media has been put ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

TGIF: About Politicians

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The best-selling social scientist and, it so happens, libertarian Bryan Caplan thinks politicians are immoral. Sounds promising. He's di...
Friday, July 21, 2023

TGIF: Paternalists Cross the Free-Speech Line

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Some pundits are puzzled that respectable mainstream Democrats and  "progressives" are no longer free-speech absolutists but rathe...
Friday, July 14, 2023

TGIF: Free Speech Upsets Powers that Be

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The Biden administration, along with mainstream politicians and journalists, are really upset that U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty has ...
Friday, July 07, 2023

TGIF: Good News on Free Speech -- for Now

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Occasionally, the news makes one cheer. That's the case with a preliminary injunction granted this week (July 4) to stop the federal g...
Friday, June 30, 2023

TGIF: "America First" Need Not Be Antiwar

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Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it...
Friday, June 23, 2023

TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters

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In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people...
Friday, June 16, 2023

TGIF: Markets Clean Up

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Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University, has been a great defender of individual liberty for a long time. One ...