In part 2 of this series (December), I argued that unenumerated noneconomic rights such as those of parents or the right to marry are generally considered “fundamental rights” under the approach libertarian legal scholar Randy Barnett labels “Footnote Four-Plus.” ...
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In part 1, I traced the evolution of “substantive due process” jurisprudence under which the Supreme Court protected a variety of unenumerated rights, both economic and ...
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We libertarians like to distinguish ourselves from our friends on the Right and Left by the fact that we care equally about both economic liberties and ...
I recently gave an introductory Public Choice talk sponsored by Students for Liberty at the University of Ottawa. The next speaker was my friend Anne Rathbone Bradley, who was Skyping in from Washington. Anne gave a terrific talk about ...
The events in Ferguson, Missouri have opened up yet another national conversation on race. This time, however, something is different. The images of a mostly white police department dressed in military outfits using military weaponry and vehicles while attempting ...
We libertarians like to distinguish ourselves from our friends on the right and left by our equal concern with economic and social/civil liberties. For libertarians, the right to engage in contract and exchange with consenting adults is just as ...
Perhaps no other issue is so much in the forefront of political debate these days as inequality. Many commentators argue that one of the most damaging things happening in the United States is increasing inequality.
Often this argument is tied ...
In the aftermath of Black Friday (or now Thursday, I guess), much will be written about Walmart. It remains the favorite whipping boy of many on the left, not to mention their enablers in what Deirdre McCloskey calls “the ...
A young libertarian recently told me that, as an individualist, he thinks it strange that people identify with a religious or ethnic group as “part of their roots or culture.” For this young man, individualism apparently means rejecting all ...
If you live in a college town, it’s almost a certainty that you’ve seen a bumper sticker along these lines: “Live simply so that others may simply live.” That phrase has the advantage of sounding like it’s based on ...
