Anyone who thinks the coronavirus pandemic destroys the case for open borders hasn't thought the matter through terribly far. Bryan Caplan explains here. Just to give a taste, in the name of excluding viruses from our shores, the government would have to stop...
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Zerohedge’s CoronaVirus Twitter Ban
Zerohedge, a famous financial news site, was banned from Twitter for posting “conspiracy theories” about the true cause of the Coronavirus. What proof did they have? Is the ban justified? Tune in!
Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU
What purpose is served by the American Civil Liberties Union? I know that the words "civil liberties" appear right there in the name, but it's increasingly difficult to take that seriously as the organization's mission. Just a month after leaked internal ACLU...
The Persistence of Tyranny
Seventy-five years ago this June, the United States Supreme Court corrected its own grave moral and legal error and ruled that the government could not compel Jehovah's Witnesses to salute the flag and take the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Justice Jackson's...
TGIF: The FBI Is Not Your Friend
One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured "Russiagate" controversy is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice. Rather, as James Bovard writes, it "has a long record of both...
Practical Reasons to Support the Right to Free Speech
In the wake of tragedies like what happened in Charlottesville, one common impulse to demand new limitations on free speech. This reaction is predictable, understandable, and mistaken. The case for limiting free speech is straightforward enough. The Charlottesville...
UK PM Theresa May Offers More Bad Solutions to Terrorism
UK Prime Minister Theresa May Continues to show how not to respond to terrorism in the wake of recent attacks in Manchester and London. First, she advocated for cracking down on the Internet, and now she has suggested that human rights laws could get in the way of...
1/27/17 Joseph Stromberg on the politics, protectionism and foreign policy of The New Deal
Joseph Stromberg, an independent historian and writer, discusses how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and worldwide protectionism ground the US economy to a halt in the 1930s; the enduring "accordion effect" of increasing government power and decline of civil liberties during...
FDR’s Internment Policies Haunt Us
FDR's Wartime Violations of Civil Liberties Are Not a Good Precedent for Anything And you don't get points for not being as bad. Last night on The Kelly File, Carl Higbie, the spokesman for a pro-Trump PAC, defended the idea of a federal registry of Muslims by citing...
09/04/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Elaine Cassel of FindLaw, and the blog, Civil Liberties watch about her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznSryfxFmU
07/03/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Elaine Cassel of Civil Liberties Watch and FindLaw about her skeptical view of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions in the Padilla, Hamdi, and Guantanamo cases. Her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled...
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