Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
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What We Can Learn From ‘The Untouchables’
by Kym Robinson | Sep 13, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The 1987 film ‘The Untouchables’ starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert DeNiro is perhaps for law enforcement what ‘Rocky’ is for boxing. It is the Hollywood tainted story of Elliot Ness, the United States Treasury agent who helped to bring down Al Capone...
Public Letter, Signed By Prosecutors, Judges, and Cops, Demands Congress Expunge All Marijuana Convictions
by Matt Agorist | Sep 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The organization formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), now known as Law Enforcement Action Partnership, along with the National Black Police Association, and Fair and Just Prosecution have signed onto a revolutionary letter to Congress urging...
Police Reform In Congress Is All Talk, and No Action
by Rob Faust | Sep 3, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A friend, and reader of the Libertarian Institute, asked me a few questions recently. Why did a group of protestors demand that Rand Paul say Breonna Taylor’s name when he was the senator that introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act? Why do we see very little...
8/7/20 Tom Woods: The Problems With the Police and How to Fix Them
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tom Woods about his new eBook, which provides a libertarian perspective on some of the national questions being raised these days about the future of policing. Scott and Woods focus in on the war on drugs in particular, which has been the culprit...
Who Becomes a Cop?
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Justice
If a major police mission is to catch us in forbidden consensual transactions, you may not like the kind of people who become cops.
Want Less Police Brutality? Write Less Laws
by Justin Murray | Jul 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of the most perplexing displays of cognitive dissonance this year is the strong support for a large state can be found within the various protest movements that are targeting the issue of law enforcement misconduct. Logically, groups opposing police misconduct...
7/10/20 Ryan Dawson on Cancel Culture, Police Reform and the War on Drugs
by Scott Horton | Jul 13, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ryan Dawson about cancel culture and the latest wave of deplatforming, of which Dawson himself is a victim. Dawson, who spends much of his time fighting against the neoconservative ideology, has come under fire over and over again for the alleged...
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Subscribe, Data Centers, Labubu’s and Parking Lots
The 2010s will perhaps be remembered for the decline of critical thinking and the ascension of dependency. Only to be fast tracked into the 2020s. There was a time, in the before, even among partisan political voices, when we could juggle reason with ideology. A...
Kelley B. Vlahos on The Kyle Anzalone Show: Has Rubio Hijacked Trump’s Foreign Policy?
What happens when the language of “protecting the homeland” is used to sell a new regime change next door? We sit down with Kelley Vlahos to map the quiet return of neoconservative logic through a Venezuela push that’s packaged for a nationalist audience. The pitch is...
Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty
My speech presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute supporters' summit on October 18, 2025.
These People Vote & Tattoo Billy
I rant and interview Ed Begley
The Whispers Written In Ink
Over the years I have come across plenty of books that were destined for landfill. Whether through the various work places I had been, the charities which moved individuals from independence to “assisted” living and then the charity shops places themselves which can’t...
I Unequivocally Condemn…
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