Lack of Police Accountability Shows the “Social Contract” Isn’t Working
March 19, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… We’re told that we pay taxes in return for government “services.” But what happens when the state doesn’t keep up its end of the bargain?
What’s the “Social Cost of Carbon?”
March 16, 2018 – Shawn Ritenour …… Unfortunately, it’s not actually possible to determine the costs of our current choices 200 years in the future.
We Don’t Need Bad Laws
March 15, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Libel, slander, and blackmail laws should be repealed.
Freedom and the Minimum Wage
March 13, 2018 – Richard Ebeling …… Most of us both value and take for granted the ability to make decisions about our own lives. When busybodies put their noses and their mouths into our personal affairs, we often say or at least think, “Mind your own business.” Unfortunately, we live in a world in which too frequently government won’t leave us alone, and instead, very actively tries to mind our business for us.
Universal Health Care in Canada: A Colossal Government Failure
March 12, 2018 – Lee Friday …… Many Canadian consumers of so-called universal health care are left wanting, as they have universal access to ‘waiting lists’, but not to actual health care.
Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?
March 10, 2018 – Jeff Deist …… People want safe neighborhoods and schools, which is just another way to say there is a market for them.
Civic anarchism: The Spectre of Secession
March 9, 2018 – David Dürr …… What’s haunting Europe?
Gun Control and Tyranny
March 8, 2018 – Jacob Hornberger …… The Second Amendment was enacted to ensure that the federal government could never impair the right of the American people to resist the tyranny of their own government.
We Need Bastiat’s “The Law” More than Ever
March 7, 2018 – Frank Hollenbeck …… The law, as currently defined, is corrupt. As Frédéric Bastiat told us, “It is not true that the function of law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our wills, our education, our opinions, our work, our trade, our talents, or our pleasures. The function of law is to protect the free exercise of these rights, and to prevent any person from interfering with the free exercise of these same rights by any other person.”
Security Works at Disney — But Can’t Work at a Public School?
March 6, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… The fact that politicians get highly-attentive security guards — while school kids get a cut-rate version of security — is revealing.