Wanjiru Njoya

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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

10/21/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

Individualism and Self-Determination in the American Tradition

10/18/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running one’s life.

How Civil Rights Activists use the Fourteenth Amendment to Bypass the First Amendment

10/14/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

While progressives love to claim fealty to the First Amendment, they actually have used the Fourteenth Amendment to squash free speech and free expression.

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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

10/21/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Individualism and the Violence of the Identitarian Left

10/06/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Leftists seek to create a new society that supposedly is peaceable. However, they also celebrate violence done against political opponents, something that Murray Rothbard understood as undermining every supposed peaceful goal they claim to be pursuing.

How the Fourteenth Amendment Empowers Judicial Activism

09/30/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a good thing.

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