Robert Higgs | Monday November 19, 2018 at 2:29 PM PDT
The idea that one culture would need to defend itself from another is a fallacy.
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Tuesday November 6, 2018 at 8:56 AM PDT
More than half of Americans receive more money from gov. transfer programs than they pay in federal taxes.
Samuel R. Staley | Friday July 13, 2018 at 4:25 PM PDT
The law has limits to changing hearts and minds.
Samuel R. Staley | Friday June 8, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
Bodes well for an era of promoting tolerance but casts a shadow over the prospects for alleviating global poverty.
William J. Watkins, Jr. | Monday June 4, 2018 at 6:26 PM PDT
This was the right result in this case, but the Court has done little to provide meaningful guidance as free exercise and free speech clash with public accommodation statutes making sexual orientation a protected classification.
William F. Shughart II | Tuesday October 17, 2017 at 1:23 PM PDT
I first met Fred S. McChesney (1948–2017) at the Federal Trade Commission in the early 1980s. Ronald Reagan had just been elected to the presidency and had appointed James C. Miller III as the FTC’s chairman. Robert D. Tollison had been confirmed as the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. I am not...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Wednesday August 9, 2017 at 10:25 AM PDT
A few weeks ago I was hopeful that Jeff Sessions was on his way out as Attorney General, because President Trump didn’t like his recusing himself on the Russia investigation or the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. But that has nothing to do with my hopes for a short tenure for the attorney...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Friday May 12, 2017 at 4:18 PM PDT
On April 25, a videotaped talk by Pope Francis was released at the international TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. The 18-minute talk, titled “Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone,” can be viewed here. Francis highlighted three themes, beginning with the observation that community is central to human existence: [L]ife flows through our...
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William F. Shughart II | Friday April 15, 2016 at 7:16 AM PDT
On Tuesday, April 5, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed a bill passed by the state’s legislature shielding certain business owners, public employees and non-profit organizations from lawsuits charging them with unlawful discrimination for refusing to serve same-sex customers. Styled the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” the new law drew sharp...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Monday February 15, 2016 at 3:20 PM PDT
We’ve heard it said that politics is more polarized today than in the past. If that’s true (and I’m not sure it is), big government is likely to blame. I recently noted that politics creates conflict. Bigger government creates more conflict. Smaller government tends to focus on activities that meet with widespread agreement. Most...
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