The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are often seen by progressives as important legal weapons with which the Supreme Court can dismantle “systemic discrimination.” To that end, these statutes grant sweeping power to the federal government to wage what progressive liberals call a “war on racial discrimination.”

Free-riders have long been used as an argument for why a state is necessary when it comes to so-called public goods. But perhaps free-riders should rather be viewed as safety valves against state overreach.

The Treasury Department released its monthly statement on Friday and has now confirmed what we all suspected: the US federal government, under the Trump Administration, will finish the 2026 fiscal year with an annual fiscal deficit of about $2 trillion. 

More than 38 million Brazilian workers fall outside the reach of one of the most extensive labor codes in Latin America, and yet the National Congress is close to making that code even more rigid through a bill that would abolish the six-day work schedule known as “6x1.”

Friedrich Hayek was one of the greatest Austrian economists of the twentieth century, and Murray Rothbard thought very highly of his work, especially his development of the Austrian theory of the business cycle. In addition, as I can testify from my own experience as his student, he was a great philosopher of the social sciences. Unfortunately, he did not completely support the free market. He favored a number of welfare state measures, such as social security and the government provision of so-called “public goods.”

As can be read on the Mises Institute website, William Leggett (April 30, 1801–May 29, 1839) was an American poet, fiction writer, and journalist. He was a laissez-faire populist Jacksonian Democrat. He also became an outspoken opponent of slavery; however, he argued that the Union was not worth preserving at the expense of liberty and justice.