By Ilya Shapiro
Earlier this year, the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy hosted a symposium on “Hyper-Partisanship and the Law.” The journal editors graciously invited me to join an august panel on partisanship in the judiciary that included George Mason University Law School’s Todd Zywicki and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Rachel Brand. (Brand ran the DOJ’s Office [...]
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By Jim Harper
I know little about a House Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow on E-Verify, but the title of it has a peculiar odor: “Document Fraud in Employment Authorization: How an E-Verify Requirement Can Help.” You see, the immigration policies Congress has set are the source of the problem. Document fraud is made more likely by employment authorization [...]
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By Jason Kuznicki
Ideologies grow and develop over time. Those that don’t die out. Where is classical liberalism headed next? At Cato Unbound this month, Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi argue that we who favor limited government and strong private property rights can — and should — make our case in terms of social justice: Among its many [...]
This Month’s Cato Unbound: The Past, Present, and Future of Classical Liberalism is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By David Boaz
Thanks to the good folks at Unz.org, we’ve filled out our archive of the late, great libertarian magazine Libertarian Review. The magazine was published from 1972 to 1981, first as a newsletter of book reviews and then as a glossy monthly magazine edited by Roy A. Childs, Jr. It made quite a splash during those years, and Childs [...]
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By Jim Harper
The Federal Trade Commission issued a report today calling on companies “to adopt best privacy practices.” In related news, most people support airline safety… The report also “recommends that Congress consider enacting general privacy legislation, data security and breach notification legislation, and data broker legislation.” This is regulatory cheerleading of the same kind our government’s [...]
FTC Issues Groundhog Report on Privacy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Aaron Ross Powell
This week at Libertarianism.org, we posted new videos on self-esteem and libertarianism, the morality of drug use, and separating school and state. The week also saw an essay from George H. Smith and blog posts on Charles Murray and Michael Sandel. Nathaniel Branden on Self-Esteem and Libertarianism Nathaniel Branden is a psychotherapist and writer known for [...]
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By Jim Harper
Having originally come to Washington to defend federalism, I am always delighted to see the division of powers among the states and the federal government have its proper effect: to protect liberty and limited government. As with REAL ID, the E-Verify federal background check system is meeting up with state resistance. The Republican Liberty Caucus [...]
National Surveillance Programs and Their State Impediments is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Sallie James
Kudos to Tim Carney, who has a great piece in the Washington Examiner today highlighting some of the politics and policy substance behind the fight over reauthorisation of the Ex-Im Bank. It’s gratifying to see a journalist take a stand against outrageous corporate welfare. If only it were more common (I’m looking at you, New York “the [...]
Ex-Im Shenanigans, cont’d is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By David Boaz
Readers of Cato-at-Liberty should also check out our latest blog, Free Thoughts on Libertarianism.org. Lots of interesting stuff there. Like Aaron Powell on “Why We Get Mad at (some kinds of) …
Hating the Rich, and Other Curiosities is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By David Boaz
Readers of Cato-at-Liberty should also check out our latest blog, Free Thoughts on Libertarianism.org. Lots of interesting stuff there. Like Aaron Powell on “Why We Get Mad at (some kinds of) Rich People.” And Jonathan Blanks on “Black History and Liberty.” And Jason Kuznicki on NPR and Ayn Rand. And Aaron’s profound disappointment with Sam Harris’s [...]
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