Justice
Killing Gaza: New documentary features Life Under Siege
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
On August 13, as a five-day ceasefire took hold in Israel’s 51 day war with Gaza, Max Blumenthal and I headed for the hyper-militarized border terminal at Erez crossing. We had no plans to make a documentary at that point. I brought along my camera and shotgun...
The Perverse Incentives of Punishment
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Todd Entrekin, the sheriff of the small Alabama county of Etowah, recently found himself in the national spotlight when an Alabama newspaper discovered that over the course of three years he pocketed at least $750,000 budgeted for feeding the people detained in his...
Thoughts on Palestine
by Sheldon Richman | May 19, 2018 | Blog, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
For the record, the children of Abraham didn't exactly acquire Canaan through Lockean homesteading. Joshua (assuming the fable is true) was a genocidal conqueror. Revs. Robert Jeffress and John Hagee opened and closed the U.S. embassy dedication in Jerusalem. What's...
Supreme Court’s Sports Gambling Opinion is a Rare and Major Win for the Tenth Amendment
by Michael Maharrey | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Murphy v. NCAA. The Court’s opinion was rare in that it not only struck down a federal law that infringed on the reserved powers of the states, but also expanded on the long-standing anti-commandeering doctrine....
Donald Trump vs The Constitution
by Rob Faust | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
Donald Trump is a lot of things; a fan of the Constitution isn’t one of them. Throughout his relatively short time as president Donald Trump has verbally assaulted no less than five amendments. Most of these have come in the form of an ill-conceived tweet and haven’t...
Nakba Day
by Sheldon Richman | May 16, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
Yesterday was Nakba Day, the day set aside to remember the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 in connection with the creation of the “Jewish State” of Israel. Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages, and many massacred,...
TGIF: To UBI or Not to UBI?
by Sheldon Richman | May 11, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
My son, Ben, asked for my take on Scott Santens's article "If You Think Basic Income is 'Free Money' or Socialism, Think Again," so here it is. The title previews the two issues Santens plans to take up, though in reverse order. So let's start with socialism....
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