Right to Bear Arms (and not just keep them)…
I’m a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia by Alan Gura, the really, really smart lawyer who argued the case that won our right to…
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G. A. Cohen
I was contacted by several people about the death of G. A. Cohen, to whose ideas I devoted a chapter of my book Realizing Freedom. (The chapter, originally published in…
A New Look at the History of the Civil Rights Movement
My friends David Beito and Linda Royster Beito have published an important new book, Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (University of Illinois…
Two Voices of Reason on Financial Matters
My friends Pierre Bessard (Liberales Institut, Switzerland) and Jeffrey Rogers Hummel (San Jose State University) have just published two most interesting articles on the likely outcome of expanding interventionism. New…
Emerging Threats to Liberty Podcast
Here’s an excerpt from my talk opening this year’s Cato University.
Cato University a Hit
Yesterday’s Cato University seminars were great, and today looks like it’s off to a good start, as well. Tibor Machan is currently lecturing on the role of individual rights as…
Balko on the Gates Arrest Kerfuffle
I think that Radley Balko basically gets the issue right: “‘The Henry Louis Gates ‘Teaching Moment’” The conversation we ought to be having in response to the July 16 incident…
Historical Sociology of the State
I’m on a train at the moment (how the world has changed; I can publish my thoughts while traveling on a train) and finishing up Gianfranco Poggi’s The Development of…
A right to health care?
Rep. John Campbell in the Orange County Register: “A right to health care?” A little partisan, given the huge steps toward such policies under the GOP (I don’t know if…
Libertarianism in Iran
The team at CheragheAzadi.org (the Persian-language Lamp of Liberty) is pushing out a steady stream of articles, commentaries and books on liberty for readers of Persian, including increasing numbers in…