The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy

In 2006, Michael Nifong had been a year in his job as Durham County District Attorney, appointed by Democratic Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina with the promise he would not run for that position in the next election. However, after Nifong and his wife saw he could earn an extra $15,000 a year on his pension if he served four more years as a D.A., he decided to run for office in the upcoming Democratic primary in April 2006.

Remembering Roger W. Garrison, Who Led the Way

I first heard of Roger Garrison from Murray Rothbard. At a social gathering in 1973 of Rothbard and a few younger Austrian scholars and grad students in the New York City area, Rothbard excitedly recounted to the group the contents of a brilliant term paper he had just read involving a graphical comparison of Austrian and Keynesian macroeconomics. The paper was titled “Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition” and its author was Roger Garrison, then an MA student. A week or two later, I received a copy of the paper in the mail.