Politics & Rights
Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Ex-Muslims on the Front Lines in the Battle for Civil Society
Faith Quintero November 19, 2020
Ex-Muslims play a critical role in challenging the evil belief system that is Islam. Help them in the fight to protect free speech and civil society by supporting their work however you can.
Politics & Rights
Corporations and Political Corruption: The Curse of Cronyism and How to End It
Michael Dahlen November 19, 2020
Cronyism follows from a government with the power to meddle in the economy. The solution, therefore, to the dysfunction and injustice of a mixed economy is an unmixed economy, an economy separated from the state.
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Pattern Day Trader Rule Hinders Financial Independence
F. F. Mormanni November 19, 2020
Imagine telling a heart surgeon that he can make only three movements per operation. If you are aiming to make money by day-trading, limits imposed by the PDT rule are equally asinine.
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Immorality of Universal Basic Income
Angelica Walker-Werth November 13, 2020
Universal basic income would sacrifice the most productive to the least, wrenching the rewards of their productivity away from them.
Politics & Rights
Sweden Hasn’t ‘Failed Its People,’ It Has Protected Their Rights
Thomas Walker-Werth November 13, 2020
The fundamental problem with claiming that the Swedish government has failed its people is that the proper purpose of government is not to protect citizens’ health but rather their rights.
Politics & Rights, Reviews
The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind by Bart J. Wilson
Timothy Sandefur November 4, 2020
The Property Species suggests fruitful speculations to demonstrate that property is a truly universal manifestation of human rationality and of man’s needs, not only to survive, but also thrive.
Politics & Rights
Life in No-Lockdown Sweden
Thomas Walker-Werth October 23, 2020
I visited Sweden at the end of September to sample life there for myself. Although I was aware that Sweden had had no lockdown, I didn’t realize how little impact COVID-19 had had on Swedish life.
Politics & Rights
Bullies, Looters, Mobs: The Anti-American Essence of BLM
Aaron Briley October 15, 2020
BLM is an anti-American movement because at its core it is a rights-denying movement. This is the meaning behind “If this system doesn’t give us what we want, we will burn it down and replace it.”
Economics, Politics & Rights
The Assault on Rideshare Companies and Drivers
Maggie Bird October 7, 2020
Anti-rideshare organizers present drivers as victims, and if they get their way, drivers certainly will be.
Arts & Culture, History, Philosophy, Politics & Rights, Reviews
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
Timothy Sandefur October 2, 2020
In Cynical Theories, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay explore the connections between such phenomena as “shoutdowns,” “canceling,” and identity politics on the one hand and the philosophical doctrines taught in America’s universities on the other.