The debate over immigration is working out perfectly for the deep state. Donald Trump is calling on the CIA and the FBI to “get involved” in domestic policing. At the same time, MAGA conservatives are begging the US government to impose a vast new surveillance state on Americans in the name of stopping illegal aliens.
Walking the sidewalks in any US small or large city, one sees at street intersections ramped curb-cuts designed to benefit people in wheelchairs. While these infrastructure modifications have certainly benefited some needing assistance to cross at intersections, many of these amenities are as likely to benefit skateboarders, cyclists, and parents pushing strollers and baby carriages—or mere ordinary pedestrians—as they benefit the wheelchair-bound.
Jason Jewell, a longtime contributor to the Mises Institute and Mises Graduate Program alumnus, has been appointed as the inaugural Chief Academic Officer of the Florida University System. Our friend Allen Mendenhall writes a proper tribute:
