The Statist Siege

Much has been made of the GOP’s ineffectiveness at halting or reversing President Obama’s agenda, at the party’s failure to live up to the expectations that propelled it to the victories in 2010 and 2014 that produced the Congressional majorities in...

Virtue Signalling

When terrorists struck Paris last November, my Facebook feed filled up with people putting the French flag over their avatars. When gay marriage was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, my feed was full of rainbows. Every so often, I get a chain letter or see...

Socialism’s Mad Men

A mere few years back, the American Left was doing its best to avoid association with the term socialism. Hardcore liberals weren’t happy about it, because they liked the principles of socialism, but came to understand that the rest of the nation, and not just...

Blaming The Messenger

ObamaCare is unraveling, faster even than many who expected it to thought it would happen. And, as surely as the sunrise, liberals and statists of many stripes are declaring that its failure is due to corporate greed, the immoral pursuit of private-sector profits, and...

Pitfalls of Public Accommodation

I’ve written here, here, and here, about how the public accommodation principle deprives business owners of economic liberty. Consider, now, an interesting story about efforts to organize a protest at the Mall of America in Minnesota. In brief, Black Lives...