Restricting Freedom Didn’t Defeat Covid
May 17, 2021 – John Tamny …… Historians will marvel at the abject stupidity of the political class in 2020. Continue reading →
Cops Beat Up an Old Lady and Then Laughed about It. Where Were the “Good Cops”?
May 16, 2021 – Ryan McMaken …… After police beat up an elderly woman and denied her medical care, the arresting officers proceeded to laugh about her injury, fist bumping and declaring “I love it” as they watched video of the brutal arrest. Now imagine if a private firm did this. Continue reading →
The Dystopian Future in Which Almost No One Owns a Car
May 15, 2021 – Zachary Yost …… Some advocates of self-driving cars argue that their adoption would mean that very few people would actually own a vehicle anymore. We’d all just rent rides on self-driving Uber cars. This would be a dream come true for advocates of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Continue reading →
The Government’s War on Pipelines Made Us Vulnerable to Attacks on Our Infrastructure
May 12, 2021 – Jon Miltimore …… The recent fuel disruptions show the danger in the government’s long war on oil pipelines. Continue reading →
The Problem with “Just Do What the Cops Say and You Won’t Get Hurt”
May 3, 2021 – Ryan McMaken …… Apologists for police abuse often claim that if a citizen complies with police orders and does what he’s told, then he won’t get hurt. The evidence says otherwise. Continue reading →
Economist: Lockdowns ‘Greatest Peacetime Policy Failure’ in Canada’s History
April 29, 2021 – Jon Miltimore …… Canadian economist Douglas Ward Allen recently ran a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns. The trade-off hardly seems worth it. Continue reading →
The United States Has Declared Defeat in Two More Wars
April 26, 2021 – Ryan McMaken …… Now that the average American voter is barely paying attention—and that the US is facing an economic crisis and weak recovery—it has become politically expedient to move further toward wrapping up a couple more lost wars. Continue reading →
On Vaccine Passports and the Interpretation of Reality
April 13, 2021 – Donald J. Boudreaux …… Where I see liberal civilization being brutally transformed by a Covidocracy into what David Hart calls a ‘hygiene socialist’ society, other people see civilization being compassionately reset into a safer and more humane arrangement in which, presumably, no one ever again will be killed or even discomforted by pathogens. Where other people see a dream, I see a nightmare. Continue reading →
Why Governments Hate Decentralization and “Local Control”
April 8, 2021 – Ryan McMaken …… Decentralized societies that value local customs, institutions, and governments are obstacles to the expansion of the regime’s power. Not surprisingly, central governments do all they can to destroy this. Continue reading →
Free States Faring Far Better Than Lockdown States in One Huge Way, New Data Show
April 4, 2021 – Brad Polumbo …… The results are in—and they overwhelmingly vindicate the free states over the authoritarian experiments. Continue reading →