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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.

The Juridical Model of Justice

09/20/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

When we speak of “justice,” how does one define it? More importantly, what is the authority by which justice is defined? Murray Rothbard believed that law and justice were derived from natural law, not the edicts of the state.

The Southern Conservative View of Equality

09/15/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

M.E. Bradford, a self-described southern conservative, understood what leftist egalitarians did not: liberty cannot coexist with egalitarianism.

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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.

Equality under the Hayekian Rule of Law

08/09/2025 Wanjiru Njoya

What do we mean by equality? F.A. Hayek believed that equality under law and the socialist belief of material equality were opposed to each other. Furthermore, he held liberty to be necessary for civilization itself to flourish.

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