Future of Freedom Foundation According to the CDC’s long established mortality models, 687,000 Americans were supposed to die during the 12 weeks between February 1 and April 18. But only 666,000 actually complied. So …
It is bad enough that federal and state officials have been punishing people for decades for possessing and distributing drugs. In a genuinely free society, people have the right to …
Manicheanism means murder. Amidst the present pandemic, America’s irrationally dyadic global typecasting, and consequent capacity for cruelty, are on unusually flagrant display. Consider this the macabre gift of COVID-catalyzed reality …
In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times is celebrating a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a good education is a constitutional right and, therefore, that …
Suppose that in 1990, you purchased a perpetual motion machine for $1,000. When it arrived, it didn’t work. Ever since then, you have been trying to make it work. You …
Social, political and economic crises, including those connected with a viral pandemic, absorb so much of our attention that it is easy to miss or forget anniversaries marking when famous …
In March, a federal agency named the Commission on Military, National, and Public Service issued an official report on whether America’s system of conscription should continue and, if so, whether …
It’s an emergency and, therefore, it’s once again time for price-gouging idiocy and the further destruction of liberty in America. The New York Times reports that two brothers, Matt Colvin …
“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss …
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” I think Rahm Emanuel’s corollary (“You never let a serious crisis …