In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
Justice
How to Care about the Disadvantaged
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Justice
You may be in the presence of mere virtue-signalers if they: wring their hands about police brutality without ever calling for repeal of all victimless-crime laws, which create a poisonous dynamic between police and public precisely because the conduct being policed...
Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog, Justice
When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict and embraced one state with equal rights for all, he quickly drew the ire of orthodox Zionists, some of whom went so far as to describe Beinart as...
A Lost Year – Where Do You Go From Here?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
The point of no return may have been reached. The effects of the government-mandated shutdowns due to Covid-19 on businesses—especially small businesses—may not be known for months, even decades, but anyone who is paying attention is beginning to realize we are...
To Annex or Not to Annex — Is the Question Moot?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains under a cloud of personal corruption, had more or less promised to annex some of the West Bank in July. He's let his deadline slip, we've been told, because he doesn't want to proceed while his buddy Trump is...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Scott Horton
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
5 Things I Learned Debating the Harvard Prof Who Called for a ‘Presumptive Ban’ on Homeschooling
by Kerry McDonald | Jun 21, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
It's not just about homeschooling. On Monday, I debated the Harvard professor who proposes a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling. Thousands of viewers tuned in to watch the live, online discussion hosted by the Cato Institute. With 1,000 submitted audience questions,...
When “Defund the Police” Will Turn Serious
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism
Defunding the police is only a small part of only one side of the equation. All anti-vice laws must be erased, and the people, individually and in voluntary combination, must be freed -- including freed from taxation -- to see to their own security, their own...