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Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall

DURING A SPEECH announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Donald Trump stumbled on what would become a signature issue for his campaign: Mexico.

What America Taught A Murderous Drug Warrior

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.

Deportations Up Under Trump

A round-up of immigrant round-ups

Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words

The death and life of a great American urbanist

Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook

Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook

Under The Stars And Under The Radar

A handy guide to camping on forbidden turf

God And Man At The FBI

Dissident and off beat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.

You're Not Going To Die In A Plane Crash

That has nothing to do with who is president.

The Applied Theory Of Bossing People Around

Richard Thaler’s prize isn’t noble.

Why It's So Hard To Get Pervs Out Of Politics

POLITICS IS A high-stakes, winner-takes all game with irresistible appeal to a certain kind of low-quality human being. There are typically only two viable candidates in any national race, and voters have a lot invested in the idea that bad things will happen if their guy loses.

Gorsuch's Record Was More liberal Than Kennedy's This Term

HERE’S A CURIOUS fact about the U.S. Supreme Court term that concluded in June: Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch racked up a more “liberal” voting record than Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Dear Immigration Restrictionists: Milton Friedman Was Not On Your Side

THE LATE NOBEL Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman was a free market libertarian who believed that immigrants helped make America great.

Grandparents In The Gulag

DEBRA CUPP, 60, stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on a hot day in July holding a handmade sign: “Ron Cupp died waiting on compassionate release, Jan. 3, 2017.”

The Tribe Of Liberty

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wonders how to save civilization in his new book, Suicide of the West.

Meet The Good Soldier Svejk, Patron Saint Of Malingerers And Saboteurs

A 1920s-era Novel Sheds Light on Eastern European Anti-authoritarianism.

A Big Freak-Out Over Donald Trump's 'Skinny' Budget

PRESIDENTIAL BUDGETS HAVE all the legal force of a letter to Santa—they’re essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony. The “skinny” blueprint released by the Office of Management and Budget in March is the result of even less consultation and collaboration than usual with the legislators who hold actual budget-making power, which makes wish fulfillment even more unlikely. Nevertheless, when President Donald Trump announced $54 billion in cuts to several federal agencies, the press immediately got to work on its own form of slash fiction, fetishizing the appropriations status quo and moaning over any possibility of budgetary restraint.

An Economist Goes To Shanghai

LAST OCTOBER, I found myself in an Uber being whisked along a bank of the Huang pu River. I’d just arrived in Shanghai, and several of my students were eager to take me to see the sights. They wanted to show me the Bund (rhymes with fund). That’s the local, Persian-origin name for the promenade on which the Europeans a century ago erected a collection of 50 or so banks, trading companies, and insurance firms: the very heart of pre-Communist capitalism in China. The buildings, especially nice when illuminated at night, are done in 1920s Beaux-Arts or art deco style.

The Disappearing Sixth Amendment

YOU HAVE THE right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you.

Republicans Don't Lack A Plan To Replace Obamacare. They Lack A Unified Theory

THERE HAS NEVER been a shortage of gop substitutes for Obamacare, from think tank white papers to congressional committee frameworks to fully drafted bills. But in the seven years that congressional Republicans spent promising to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law, none ever moved beyond the development phase, because what Republicans lacked wasn’t a plan. It was a theory.

Meet Eric July

Your New Favorite Anarcho-Capitalist Christian Rap-Metal Artist

The Rise Of Atomic Humanism

The Rise Of Atomic Humanism 

When The Government Declared War On The First Amendment

When The Government Declared War On The First Amendment 

Interview: Kennedy

The TV host and one-name celeb talks about cherry vodka, teenage rebellion, Frank Zappa, free-range parenting, and life as Fox’s token libertarian. 

Education

Teachers Union Head Casts School Choice As Racism.

When Playboy Made It Big

PLAYBOY MAGAZINE USED to be the contraband men of all ages hid in their sock drawers.

The Slants - The Band Who Must Not Be Named

Bassist Simon Tam talks about his band’s Supreme Court fight to trademark its controversial name.

Supreme Court Tries To Draw A Line Around Gay Wedding Cakes

IF DECORATING A cake counts as constitutionally protected speech, what doesn’t count? That was the question at stake during Supreme Court oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

The FCC Takes Its Hands Off The Internet

IN APRIL, AJIT Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his first major initiative: taking internet regulation back to 2014.