Here’s a letter that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should write to the players who want to make the National Anthem a political and racial issue: Dear Players: Let me assure you that the NFL takes your issue very seriously, whatever it might be. In fact, we take it...
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Don’t Like Militarized Police and Mass Incarceration? Blame Progressivism.
Talking about racism won't end these problems. Our cities are saturated with militarized law enforcement officers. An extraordinarily high number of American civilians are killed by police each year. The U.S. prison population is the largest in the world. And we are...
If Cops Can’t Kill Mundanes on a Whim, What’s the Point of Having Police?
To the ears of reasonable people, the expression “de-policing” would refer to the process of abolishing police departments – not the exercise of restraint by police officers in the use of lethal force by police officers. The latter would be described as...
How History Will See Libertarians v. Laura Ingraham
Conservative talk-radio host Laura Ingraham said yesterday that libertarians will always be a fringe minority. It’s a refrain that libertarians have heard hundreds of times. It’s usually followed by snide remarks about libertarians being utopian and idealistic. At...
Abolishing the Police State Can Be a Point of Common Interest Between Black Lives Matter Activists and Libertarians
In the wake of the questionable shootings of Keith Lamont Scott in North Carolina and Terence Crutcher in Oklahoma, activists are renewing calls for police reform. Some writers (including a contributor to the Nation) are calling for the complete abolition of police...
Victimless-Crime Laws Breed Police Violence
As long as the police are charged with detecting and stopping consensual transactions -- concerning, for example, drugs, guns, gambling, sex, and untaxed cigarettes and CDs -- tension and violence will continue. Abolishing victimless-crime laws won't end institutional...
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