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This Week at Libertarianism.org

Aaron Ross Powell — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:18:36 +0000

By Aaron Ross Powell

Libertarianism.org keeps adding new stuff, so if you’re not a regular reader, now’s a great time to become one. This week we added the following: George H. Smith gave us a glance at economic regulations from the past in his new Excursions essay, “Monopolies, Mercantilism, Illegal Buttons, and Saltpeter Men.” Jason Kuznicki published a review of [...]

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This Month’s Cato Unbound: What Is Due Process?

Jason Kuznicki — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:34 +0000

By Jason Kuznicki

What is due process? Virtually everyone would agree that “due process” refers to a set of judicial procedures that create at least a strong tendency toward fair results. But why do we have these procedures and not some others? Why do we have trial by jury, and not trial by fire? Why not just flip [...]

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Our Constitution Is Out of Step with the Rest of the World

Roger Pilon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:39:10 +0000

Is the Constitution out of date? That’s the impression that comes across from an article in yesterday’s New York Times, written by the paper’s crack Supreme Court reporter, Adam Liptak. It comes in turn from an article he points to by two law professors, David S. Law at Washington University in St. Louis and Mila [...]

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The Ethos of Universal Coverage

Michael F. Cannon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:50 +0000

Associated Press photojournalist Noah Berger captured this thousand-word image near the Occupy Oakland demonstrations last month. Many Cato@Liberty readers will get it immediately. They can stop reading now. For everyone else, this image perfectly illustrates the ethos of what I call the Church of Universal Coverage. Like everyone who supports a government guarantee of access to medical care, [...]

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As It Turns Out, Money Is Speech

John Samples — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:48:54 +0000

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. [...]

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This Week at Libertarianism.org

Aaron Ross Powell — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:15:21 +0000

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 [...]

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‘We Are Not Deciding between Regulation and Autonomy, We Are Deciding Whether or Not We Want a Puppet Government’

Michael F. Cannon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:29:54 +0000

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 ...

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Headline of the Week: “Consumer Chief Richard Cordray Promises Not to Abuse His Power”

Michael F. Cannon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:01:05 +0000

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 - ...

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No Common Schools, No Peace?

Neal McCluskey — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:12:43 +0000

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: [...]

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SOPA and Skepticism

Aaron Ross Powell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:29:55 +0000

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, [...]

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