Chris Calton

Chris Calton is a Mises University alumnus and an economic historian. See his YouTube channel here.

The Origins of the Crack-Baby Myth

Blog07/24/2017Chris Calton

Like much of the propaganda surrounding the Drug War, the media-invented crack-baby stories generally ignored the scientific facts.

Blog07/11/2017Chris Calton

The war on drugs actually pushes violent criminals back onto the streets in order to devote resources to non-violent criminals.

Blog06/22/2017Chris Calton

Since using the court system costs them nothing, police and prosecutors have an incentive to load up the court system with non-violent "crimes."

Blog06/07/2017Chris Calton

Before endorsing a legal system, libertarians must first figure out what justice is. The natural-law framework is one way of figuring this out.

Blog05/14/2017Chris Calton

The scarcity of internet bandwidth cannot be legislated away, and consumers would benefit most from market allocation — not state control.