The Border Crisis Is the Latest Example of Government “Efficiency”
By nearly any standard, the US government’s administration of border control is a disaster.
If the goal is to limit border crossings, things are a mess. If the goal is to facilitate more legal immigration, things are a mess. If the goal is simply to give every potential immigrant a timely hearing, that too is a mess. The only scenario in which the current situation is a success is the one in which advocates for unrestrained migration cynically attempt to overwhelm the system in the hope it can be rendered inoperable.
The Lack of a Principled Immigration Policy in the US
To date, no major political party in the United States has issued a coherent, principled policy on immigration. Without a principled policy, political jockeying has been the rule of the day.
Josiah Neeley Gives the Other Side on What Happened with the Texas Power Freeze
Rob Bradley Gives a Brief History of US Electricity Regulation, with Lessons for the Recent Texas Freeze
Biden’s Rescue Plan Won’t Reduce Poverty
State Preemptions of Local Government Are a Bad Thing. Even When Ron DeSantis Does It.
The Never-Ending Battle between Leviathan and Liberty
They Said Things Would Be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong.
Shays’s Rebellion: Catalyst for the Counterrevolution
[Chapter 11 of Rothbard’s newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.]
