The best-selling social scientist and, it so happens, libertarian Bryan Caplan thinks politicians are immoral. Sounds promising. He's discussed this online and in one of his published blog-post collections, How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery. What are we...
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Boosted by COVID: The Improbable Rise of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
by Jonathan Franklin | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sipped coffee inside the historic New Hampshire State House as he chit-chats with a gaggle of the state’s political leaders about the travails of being dad to seven children. Kennedy described his shock upon finding credit card receipts that...
TGIF: Paternalists Cross the Free-Speech Line
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Some pundits are puzzled that respectable mainstream Democrats and "progressives" are no longer free-speech absolutists but rather are enthusiastic defenders of the government's massive effort to squelch expression on the social media platforms. (Glenn Greenwald is...
TGIF: Free Speech Upsets Powers that Be
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Biden administration, along with mainstream politicians and journalists, are really upset that U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty has forbidden the executive branch of the central government from communicating with social-media platforms for the purpose of...
TGIF: Good News on Free Speech — for Now
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Occasionally, the news makes one cheer. That's the case with a preliminary injunction granted this week (July 4) to stop the federal government from suppressing lawful speech on social media. U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty took the action in the case of...
Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians
by Jim Bovard | Jul 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. For a couple centuries, Independence Day was an occasion for raising a ruckus with firecrackers and plenty of other friendly detonations. But in...
Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political...
I Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Vote
by Benjamin Seevers | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
I just turned 22, and I should not be allowed to vote. I agree with Vivek Ramaswamy that the voting age probably should be increased, but the good intentioned policy misses the mark because it does not go far enough. Raising the voting age would be a step in the right...