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Supreme (Semi-) Disappointment
I’m not disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Trump’s preposterous and destructive trade taxes. That was the right decision and I want to call it a libertarian legal victory. But...
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The Battle for Free Speech, Part I
I’m a big fan of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I like the restrictions on government power that are being enforced, and I like the restrictions on government power that I wish were being...
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A Great Libertarian Legal Victory
Trump’s “Liberation Day” tax increase on trade has been very bad news for the economy, causing considerable havoc in financial markets and imposing big costs on American businesses. The president...
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Newsom’s Proposed Gun Ban: Honest But Wrong
Given his state’s awful fiscal policy, I generally don’t have anything nice to say about Gavin Newsom, California Governor. And I don’t like his proposal to amend the Constitution to weaken gun rights,...
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Time for a Constitutional Convention?
Yesterday’s column was about the referendum for a new leftist constitution in Chile. Fortunately, Chilean voters overwhelmingly rejected that awful plan (a surprisingly positive outcome since those...
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Will Chileans Vote for a Statist Constitution?
When I went to Chile last December to write about that nation’s election (see here, here, here, here, and here), I concluded my coverage with a column about the risks of changing that nation’s...
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How Should the Constitution Be Changed?
John Stossel has added to his collection of great videos. His latest releases asks whether the Constitution should be amended. If you watch carefully, you’ll see that I made an appearance toward the...
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Chile Election Week, Part VI: Wrecking the Constitution?
Now that a socialist has been elected (with open support from the Communist Party), what comes next for Chile? Lots of bad policy, for sure, but Axel Kaiser warns that the left also wants to replace...
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The 2nd Amendment and the Individual Right to Gun Ownership
Back in 2012, I shared a video clip of Ice-T defending the 2nd Amendment, but that video is now dead, so I’m glad to see that Prager University has added his comments as a prologue to this defense of...
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Another Leftist Has an Epiphany on Guns
I’m (unfortunately) not a rich person, but that doesn’t stop me from opposing punitive taxes on successful entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners. Likewise, I’m not a gun aficionado, but...
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Happy 229th Anniversary to the 2nd Amendment
When I write about gun control, it’s normally to make wonky points about how gun ownership reduces crime by changing the cost-benefit analysis of potential bad guys. Today, in honor of Bill of Rights...
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The Wrong Kind of Constitutional Reform in Chile
The good thing about being a libertarian is that real-world events repeatedly demonstrate that your skepticism of big government is fully justified. Nations that adopt dirigiste policies don’t do well....
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Democracy and Liberty
A pure democracy, where 51 percent of the people have the right to do anything they want, is not a desirable form of government. It means tyranny of the majority. That’s why America’s Founding Fathers...
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The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism
Some of my right-wing friends complain about “judicial activism,” which seems to mean that they want courts to defer to other branches of government. Since I’m opposed to majoritarianism and because I...
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Economic Liberty and the Constitution
In this interview from last March, I groused that the Supreme Court – largely thanks to statist Justices appointed by one of America’s worst presidents – basically decided, starting in the 1930s, that...
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Defending the Second Amendment in Virginia
Other than an occasional column about events in my home county of Fairfax, I’ve never written about public policy in Virginia. This is because the Commonwealth has had a dull profile. It doesn’t have a...
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Three Cheers for (Liberty-Minded) Rogue Jurors
I wrote a three-part series (here, here, and here) about “jury nullification,” which is the notion that jurors can declare defendants not guilty if they think the underlying law is unjust or immoral....
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Heartwarming Stories of Civil Disobedience
I was delighted to learn in 2013 that an overwhelming majority of Americans would disobey if politicians passed laws to confiscate private firearms. And we have firsthand evidence from Colorado and...
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What We Should Be Celebrating on the 4th of July
For my annual Independence Day columns, I sometimes try to make serious points, such as last year when I shared the very wise words of Calvin Coolidge, who is probably America’s most-underappreciated...
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Economic Liberty and the Constitution
Two days ago, I wrote about how the Constitution was designed, in large part, to protect Americans from majoritarianism. The Supreme Court is doing a reasonably good job of protecting some of our...
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