One remarkable aspect of the coverage of the Uvalde shooting is how quickly the narrative has gone praising police heroics to exposing the law enforcement agents’ complete, total, and shameful failure. Simultaneously, police apologists’ excuses have repeatedly changed as well. 

Richard Arneson has been a major figure in political philosophy for the last few decades, and in this week’s article, I’d like to look at some points he raises in his article “Liberal Egalitarian Critiques,” his contribution to The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism, pp. 564–78.

Not too long ago, most of us took our news or commentary in print. Thanks to entrepreneurs and digital technology, we now have other options. Some people still prefer to read, others to watch, and it looks like many of our mises.org faithful prefer to listen. This has led to the huge popularity of our Human Action Podcast and Radio Rothbard, which are both driven by hot contemporary topics and no-holds-barred guests.

American Colony governments were experiments in and innovators in freedom, but state governments haven’t been, and have been even less so in the Progressives’ century-plus since 1894. Here’s a fix for that.

Coercive covid-19 lockdown measures, vaccine mandates, the transition to green energy, and poorly thought out Western sanctions against Russia have all played significant roles in disrupting global food markets and supply chains. In May 2022, data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization indicated that, relative to twelve months ago, “international wheat prices have increased 56 percent,” “cereal prices are up nearly 30 percent,” and “vegetable oils are 45 percent higher.”