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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.
Junkyard Blight No More
LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.
Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit
“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.
What Politicians Must Do When Protesters Attack
Learning from Robert McNamara’s mistakes and magnanimity.
Banned In Cannes
Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.
Guitar Globalization
Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.
Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction
A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.
Free Brazil!
Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.
Charlottesville And The Perils Of Collectivism
PETER CVJETANOVIC STANDS in a sea of tiki torches, his mouth wide open, teeth partially bared. You can almost hear the snarling scream from the photograph.
Government Created The Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.
Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney
Make School Hard Again
ON MARCH 12, news of a massive admission scandal broke in the world of higher education.
Meet The Teens Who Want To Get Vaccinated Against Their Parents' Wishes
What Happens When A Kid Raised By “all-natural” Parents Wants To Make A Different Choice?
When The Cops Come For You In The Target Parking Lot
A mom reflects on her experience parenting in the age of fear.