Antonio1

Antonio Vladika is a Brazilian attorney with a postgraduate specialization in Administrative Law.

JennyJoy1

Jenny Joy Schumann is an economist and jurist specializing in Austrian economics, and liberal institutional the

We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can’t Have Both.

The idea of political unity has long been a popular trope and slogan in politics. “He’s a uniter, not a divider” is a sentiment that many American politicians like to cultivate about themselves. Over many centuries and across many jurisdictions we encounter the claim that unity is a political virtue, and that anything that “divides us” must therefore be condemned. Some even label opposition to unity as a type of treason. 

Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights

The Constitution had been ratified and was going into effect, and the next great question before the country was the spate of amendments which the Federalists had reluctantly agreed to recommend at the state conventions. Would they, as Madison and the other Federalists wanted, be quietly forgotten? The Antifederalists, particularly in Virginia and New York, would not permit that to happen and the second convention movement, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason in Virginia and proposed by the New York convention circular letter, was the Antifederal goal.

Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

What does the Federal Reserve have in common with Venezuela and Greenland? It has been targeted by President Trump for regime change.

The Justice Department recently launched a criminal investigation into whether Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell lied to Congress about the costs of renovating the Federal Reserve’s offices.

Many believe this investigation was launched in order to support President Trump’s effort to replace Powell, who he nominated to be Fed chairman in 2017, with a Fed chairman who will accommodate President Trump’s demands for lower interest rates.

Daoism and the Limits of Rule: Ethical Anarchism Without Natural Rights

Modern libertarian political theory is usually presented as a distinctly Western inheritance—emerging from medieval natural law, sharpened by early modern liberalism, and culminating in the radical critiques of state power advanced by thinkers such as Murray Rothbard. And, while to a large extent accurate, hostility to governance, skepticism toward authority, and confidence in spontaneous social order are not uniquely Western phenomena.

The Case for Economic Truth: Why Tariff Cuts Trump Protectionism

When Prime Minister Mark Carney reduced tariffs on Chinese goods from a staggering 100 percent to a modest 6.1 percent this week, he performed a rare feat in modern governance: He removed a punitive tax on his own citizens and allowed prices to tell the truth. This was neither a geopolitical concession nor a diplomatic gamble; it was a clinical correction of a policy that had become economically self-destructive.

When Hate Speech is Defined as a Crime

What is the difference between “hate speech” and a “hate crime”? You might think this is a trick question because the First Amendment protects free speech, including hate speech, which means that hate speech is not a crime. However, having realized that there is no easy way round the First Amendment protection of free speech, civil rights activists have resorted to depicting hate speech as “disorderly conduct” or “harassment,” in order to campaign for criminal charges to be brought against people who utter any words that, in their interpretation, amount to hate speech.