Legal System
Who Owns the Sky?
Many in Congress were troubled by the question of whether the Constitution authorized them to pass such legislation.
Utah Recognizes Gold Coins to Be Money
What if this law in the state of Utah catches on? What if people started to price goods and services on the basis that $20 equals an ounce of gold?
The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons
Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure: we are forced to play along with all they demand.
The Social Function of Insurance
With insurance the client pays a small amount of money (the premium) in exchange for a more certain future, in which his wealth will not fluctuate as wildly in different possible scenarios.
Use the Dollar or Else
Criminal Justice Is No Job for the State
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, with 1 in 100 people behind bars. The prison population in America equals that of the cities of Los Angeles and Miami combined. This is an egregious form of statism. It's time we stop ignoring this issue.
Clarence Darrow on Freedom, Justice, and War
No Treason, no. 1
Before the civil war, there were some grounds for saying that, at least in theory, our government was a free one — that it rested on consent.
Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary
This book helped me see the world more clearly and understand so much that had previously remained cloudy.