The First Amendment Protects Ideologically Based Ad Boycotts
The Supreme Court will uphold as well-established the First Amendment right to engage in ideological ad boycotts. The question is whether the Trump administration will succeed in bulldozing this as a practical matter before it reaches the high court.
Free-Markets and Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture
Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation, of which division of labor is the essence. Its completion will mark the highest level of division of labor and social cooperation that it is possible for human beings to achieve, given the size of the world’s population.
The Meta-FTC Trial — A Waste of Time
“Why can’t you think about it that Mark Zuckerberg is really smart” and that he saw the value where others didn’t?
Tariffs Are Awful, but the Income Tax May Be Worse
If Mr. Trump completely eliminates the IRS and the hated income tax along with it, there may be a reasonable case for increasing tariff rates.
A Course-Correction on Antitrust
Is the DOJ finally done playing games with the economy?
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
Why Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech Still Matters
There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
On July 4th: Love America or Lose Her
Patriotism is more than a sentiment. It is a necessity. To keep what history has presented to us, Americans must either love it or lose it. Balkanize America and you risk becoming the Balkans.
Universal Health Care Freedom on the Fourth of July
It is precisely because our health care is so important to each of us that we need to be especially careful to preserve and protect the rights of physicians and other health care providers.
