Colleen Hroncich Even before she had children, former public school teacher Jada Robinson often tried looking at her classroom as if she were a parent. “I would always think ahead—if this was my child in this class and my child was in this environment, how would
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Following a one-month suspension in the 25 percent tariffs on all goods imported into the United States from Canada and Mexico, President Trump announced on February 27 that his administration would move forward with these duties. As we explained in
J.B. Say deserves to be remembered, especially by Austrian economists, as a pivotal figure in the history of economic thought. Yet, one finds him discussed very briefly, if at all.
The gold in the US gold reserve is a legacy of the time the US government refused to keep its promise to redeem dollars in gold, and when it reneged on its legal obligations to repay debts in gold.
While historian Walter A. McDougall was not a libertarian, nonetheless he had some Rothbardian insights on Woodrow Wilson and his reckless intervention into World War I. David Gordon notes that while McDougall‘s views on intervention were inconsistent, they still are useful.
Brian Doherty (Note: Below is the Introduction to the new book, Modern Libertarianism, A Brief History of Classical Liberalism in the United States, published by Libertarianism.org, a project of the Cato Institute, and available through Amazon and the Cato Store. The author, Brian Doherty, is a
Walter Olson As one who watches the law, there are no questions I get asked more often these days than: What happens if the Trump administration decides to defy a court order? Who will win? The answers aren’t easy, because there are multiple possibilities that fall
Clark Neily Like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick, I’ve sworn eternal hostility to the rational basis test. It’s a fraud and a charade—a constitutional kludge dressed up as judicial review, but with none of the substance. Worse, it’s unconstitutional for two reasons we’ll get to in
Jennifer J. Schulp Crypto policy is off to the congressional races. Putting the rubber to the road on the Trump administration’s executive order “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology,” Davis Sacks, the White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar, announced on February 4 that
Although egalitarian interventionism constantly is wrecked on the shoals of reality, there is always a stable of new politicians eager to promote what Murray Rothbard called “a revolt against nature.”