Wanjiru Njoya

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How the Fourteenth Amendment Empowers Judicial Activism

09/30/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence.

The Principle of Proportionality

09/27/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Left-wing activists have tried to justify the recent light train murder in Charlotte and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, citing social justice narratives. But any narrative must be based both on truth and proportionality.

How Equal Protection Laws Threaten Free Speech

09/23/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Equal protection laws supposedly protect individual rights by guaranteeing the law protects everyone equally. However, Murray Rothbard noted that these laws often are used to suppress those rights.

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How the Fourteenth Amendment Empowers Judicial Activism

09/30/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not a good thing.

Charlie Kirk and the Sacred Totem of Civil Rights

09/17/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was considered "divisive" was that he spoke out against the civil rights laws, which was interpreted as his supporting Jim Crow segregation. Yet, these laws did not increase liberty but rather imposed a new progressive vision on Americans.

The Meaning of Coercion in Hayekian Philosophy

08/12/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

How do we define liberty? Hayek saw it as the absence of most (but not all) coercion, but that depends upon how one defines “coercion.” Murray Rothbard believed that Hayek was too willing to accept forms of coercion that were anti-freedom.

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