By John Samples
Those who advocate for more restrictions on campaign finance generally practice a populist politics. They fulminate against the influence of money, demonize donors, and ascribe all the nation’s problems to Citizens United. Once you have read an example such reformist rhetoric, you have read all of them. (But if you must read more, here’s E.J. [...]
As It Turns Out, Money Is Speech is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Aaron Ross Powell
It’s been a busy week over at Libertarianism.org. We began with a new Excursions essay from George H. Smith. Provocatively titled “Fingering the King on the Road to Independence,” Smith’s piece examines how the pre-Revolution Coercive Acts led Americans to blame the king for the conspiracy to strip them of their rights and liberties. We posted two [...]
This Week at Libertarianism.org is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
That’s how Charlie Arlinghaus, president of New Hampshire’s Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, describes the decision confronting states about whether to create an ObamaCare Exchange in this op-ed for the New Hampshire Union-Leader.
‘We Are Not Deciding …
‘We Are Not Deciding between Regulation and Autonomy, We Are Deciding Whether or Not We Want a Puppet Government’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Michael F. Cannon
From the Los Angeles Times.
It works on so many levels.
Headline of the Week: “Consumer Chief Richard Cordray Promises Not to Abuse His Power” is a post from Cato @ Liberty – …
Headline of the Week: “Consumer Chief Richard Cordray Promises Not to Abuse His Power” is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Neal McCluskey
Today is the mid-point of National School Choice Week, and we’re once again rockin’ to the oldies of prognostication. This time we’re going all the way back to the Mann. That’s Horace Mann, the “Father of the Common School” himself. It is Mann who, among many things, is probably most responsible for introducing one of the deepest underlying sentiments supporting government schooling: [...]
No Common Schools, No Peace? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Aaron Ross Powell
Over at Libertarianism.org I have a new blog post on the lesson the technology community should have learned from their campaign against SOPA. Imagine you’re an expert in some field of technical knowledge. Your field impacts quite a lot of people but most of them don’t understand the details the way you do. One day, [...]
SOPA and Skepticism is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By John Samples
Lately I have argued that Super PACs, a result of the SpeechNow judicial decision, have enhanced democratic debate in the 2012 presidential election. Super PACs have had one undeniable specific result this year: they enabled a donor to give a Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich several million dollars. Mr. Gingrich, it turns out, has put [...]
Should I Change My Mind about Super PACs? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Trevor Burrus
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Randy Barnett and Orin Kerr are having another spirited, intelligent, and respectful back-and-forth over Obamacare and the individual mandate. Responding to a comment, Professor Kerr opines that he is concerned that an opinion striking down the individual mandate would be too partisan and it would again fail, like so many [...]
Commandeering the People to Avoid Taxation: A Reply to Barnett and Kerr is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Aaron Ross Powell
This week saw a bunch of great new content added to Libertarianism.org. On Tuesday, George Smith published another essay to his ongoing series about the events leading up to the American Revolution. This time he told the story of the Boston Tea Party: In substituting naked force for conciliation and compromise, the British hoped to [...]
This Week at Libertarianism.org is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Chris Edwards
My friend David Brunori announced this week that he is no longer a “liberal” but a libertarian, although he says of the “bleeding heart” variety. This is interesting because David has long been one of the nation’s top state fiscal experts. He is currently an editor of the Tax Notes family of periodicals (which are [...]
David Brunori Comes Out as a Libertarian is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
