Legal System
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.
The Rationale for Total Privatization
The Socialism of Agri-Patents
ome bozo tried to patent a species in 1889, but the patent commissioner rejected it as "unreasonable and impossible." Exactly. But this changed in stages, and only fairly recently. The current regime dates from the late 1980s. These patents handed the Left their best arguments.
The Fight against Intellectual Property
Rethinking IP
Patent and copyright, to take the two worst manifestations of IP, are nothing but state monopolies that violate property rights. IP is antithetical to capitalism and the free market.