One of the many ways that government stifles competition to aid special-interest groups is occupational licensing — laws that make it illegal for people to offer their services unless they have procured the state’s approval by going to the ...
As the United States steadily succumbs to omnipotent government, it is important to look back at our early history to see how much Americans accomplished when they were free to use their time, talents, and property to solve the ...
All government-backed monopolies are objectionable, but perhaps none so much as the monopoly that state governments give to their licensed attorneys. Laws against “unauthorized practice of law” (UPL) ensure that licensed attorneys won’t have to face competition from individuals ...
Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty by James Bovard (Libertarian Institute, 2023)
There are quite a few writers who are dedicated to exposing the harm that our leviathan state is doing to the American people, but ...
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 2023)
Now 93, Thomas Sowell continues to produce excellent work — work that would help the United States escape from the grip of statism if people would heed him. ...
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case, 303 Creative v. Elenis, that seems to turn on the meaning of the First Amendment. In my view, this is indeed an important case, but casting it as a ...
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How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery by Bryan Caplan
(Bet On It Books, 2022)
Caplan follows up on that observation with a devastating point about the calculating political mindset. Suppose that a politician had ...
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How Evil Are Politicians?: Essays on Demagoguery
by Bryan Caplan (Bet On It Books, 2022)
If you are a libertarian, or just someone with a streak of skepticism about government, you will enjoy ...
Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It
by Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames (Encounter Books, 2022).
We have been through this many times before — prices start to increase at an ...
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich — How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
McCloskey and Carden also ...
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