Objectivist former prosecutor James Valliant assesses the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota.
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Legal Leviathan: Big Law Is Yet Another Problem
Big Law fundamentally distorts the American legal system by offering billions of dollars in free legal services to unconstitutional crusades and liberal pet projects while denying access to any opposition group.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
The Bill of Rights at 234 Years Old
Anti-Federalists, who feared a powerful central government, demanded greater assurances.
Miami Permit Takings
Chad Trausch and his wife’s family was growing, so he decided to expand his Miami home. But when he submitted plans for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom addition, the city came back with a strange request: it wanted half his front yard.
The History of Thanksgiving: Thanks, Property Rights
This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.
The Second Amendment: A Bulwark Against Tyranny in Modern America
The Second Amendment’s primary purpose—arming citizens as the ultimate check against government tyranny—remains both legally recognized and practically viable in modern America.
US Department of Justice’s Indictment of Former FBI Director James Comey
The nonpartisan reality is that it is too early to make a full assessment of the merits or demerits of the case.
Americans Must Remain Committed to Freedom of Speech After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Americans are grappling with the horrific assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Counterpoint: Was Jimmy Kimmel Censored?
Their real source of anger is the loss of yet another bureaucratic entitlement program, reminiscent of their hysterics amid DOGE cuts earlier this year. From the public airwaves to USAID to DEI contracts, the deep state and its media mouthpieces have enjoyed a long-standing structural advantage thanks to the largess of the taxpayer.
Kimmel Suspension and Freedom of Speech
Government officials need not act directly to censor speech.
Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Networks and local affiliates try to avoid programming that might strike FCC regulators as misleading, tasteless, or shocking. The FCC has never disavowed its authority over content, and the sword of Damocles still hangs over every licensee.
Government Shouldn’t Play “Truth Police”
President Trump and others in his administration can and have pushed back against speech they disagree with and speech they believe to be false. That is their right, so long as their counterspeech does not cross the line to threats of government power.
Charlie Kirk: A Gift For Embracing Critics and Debating Ideas
From universities to legacy media to Antifa to Black Lives Matter to Big Pharma, Kirk fought the most influential cartels in our midst. They noticed.
The U.S. Constitution, the Bedrock of American Freedom
The purpose of a constitution is to define the structure and rules by which a government operates. In the case of the United States Constitution, those rules are—contra to most other such constitutions—explicitly designed to limit the government’s authority.
Do Legal Checks on a President’s Power “Diminish the Votes of the Citizens Who Elected Him”?
Requiring that a president conduct himself within the bounds of the law does not somehow “diminish the votes of the citizens who elected him.”
Why Free Speech Matters
The pursuit of truth depends on open debate.
The Systematic Unraveling of the Administrative State
This year, and mostly because the Trump administration decided to challenge the entire model, the machinery has begun to malfunction and melt away. There is a very long way to go, but we finally have the answer to the question of this fourth branch’s legitimacy.
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.
The Media Beast Targets the MAHA Reform
There is poetry in how the scholar called a “fringe epidemiologist” by the previous agency heads is now in charge.
Feds Can’t Regulate “Ideological Diversity” at Schools Like Harvard
No civil rights law on the books requires “viewpoint diversity” in university admissions or hiring or creates a protected class of students or faculty based on ideological views.
End All Taxpayer Funding of CPB, NPR, PBS
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say Congress should fund a national media.
What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
Would a determined executive ever fall back in the end on the core power asymmetry between the two branches—it has guns, and the judges don’t?
Who Controls the Administrative State?
Not a day goes by when the New York Times does not manufacture some maudlin defense of the put-upon minions of the tax-funded managerial class. In this worldview, the agencies are always right, whereas any elected or appointed person seeking to rein them in or terminate them is attacking the “public interest.”
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