Stephen Slivinski Maybe you’re like me and you stick around until the end of the movie credits. (Or maybe you’re normal?) Sometimes it’s a key part of the experience—Marvel films famously have a (occasionally worthwhile) scene at the end of ...
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In normal human affairs, actions like lying, theft, and murder are considered to be immoral and anti-social. However, people are quick to accept those same behaviors from government agents and they will even defend such actions as “necessary” for the ...
Alex Nowrasteh and Adam N. Michel President Donald Trump recently fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after the agency released unexpectedly weak job growth figures, accusing her of manipulating the data without evidence. He has now nominated E.J. Antoni, ...
Matthew Cavedon The federal government’s plea for effectively unbounded prosecutorial forum shopping is incompatible with the original meaning of the Constitution’s provisions limiting venue. Details of the case are presented below. San Francisco-based FBI agents flew to Seattle to question ...
The Federal Reserve has what the New York Times called its “biggest shindig” of the year at Jackson Hole, Wyoming next week. What mischief are they up to? ...
What really happened in Syria? Ruling US elites and Israel have spun the narrative that advocates of democracy were rebelling against a brutal authoritarian regime. The truth is that once again, US policy has made things even worse for Syria. ...
The notion that transparency fosters trust fails to account for the indispensable role of privacy. Privacy is not merely a personal preference—it is the guarantor of fungibility. ...
The recent political firefight over Trumps firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer overshadows the underlying question of why we need the BLS at all. Murray Rothbard noted that government statistics provide the main tools for government economic intervention. ...