The architects of Proposition 40—California’s proposed 5 percent tax on billionaire net worth—say they want to tame inequality. But in their rush to redistribute wealth, they risk undermining something more fundamental: the rule of law.
Christopher Coyne and Daniel Klein—both professors of economics at George Mason University— have recently issued a statement on the need for America’s foreign policy to move in the direction of peace and multipolarity.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black diaspora intellectuals—Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, and W. E. B. Du Bois—responded to colonial and racial atrocities in the Caribbean and American colonies with what would later be called Pan-Africanism: the idea that people of African descent share common interests and should unite.
In the ongoing debate about enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, civil rights activists allege that the Trump administration is intimidating black people to impede them from voting. They invoke the history of the Reconstruction era, arguing that “voters, especially voters of color, are intimidated and fearful of engaging in the democratic process.”
In recent weeks, German and French politicians have denounced free speech, and especially the concept of “freedom of speech” as long envisioned in the libertarian tradition of natural rights.
