On May 2, 2019, Assange threw down the gauntlet by telling a British judge that he plans on fighting extradition requests from the United States. He is due to appear …
Julian Assange Refuses To Be Extradited To The United States
Personal Liberty
Couple Could be Imprisoned or Executed for Seasteading Off of Thailand
Over a month ago, I published an article about the exciting journey of two Bitcoin entrepreneurs who were attempting to start the first major seasteading community in international waters off …
Education Needs More Market Signals, Not Credential Signals
Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe does not pull punches when it comes to tearing down conventional wisdom in professional advancement. Rowe has had choice words for the university system and how …
Mitch McConnell is Not My Mother: Smoking Ages and Federal Tyranny
Mitch McConnell has proposed raising the age to purchase all tobacco products from 18 to 21. This patronizing policy will fail in execution, regardless of how many totalitarian representatives vote …
Senator Klobuchar’s Frozen Pizza Problem
During CNN’s New Hampshire Town Hall recently with the Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Harvard student Thomas Satterthwaite asked perhaps the funniest and most insightful question anyone has asked anyone running …
Iron Law of Prohibition: The Case Against All Drug Laws
Economics is important to social policy. The Iron Law of Prohibition is just another example of how economic literacy drives sound policy. While someone may want to ban drugs for …
Philadelphia Democrats Learn Hard Lesson About Soda Tax
“The road to hell was paved with good intentions,” a wise man once said. The City of Philadelphia learned that the hard way after a scandal brought forth jailtime for …
‘Did I Consent?’: New Airport Face Scanners Deployed Without Oversight
In your pants and now in your face, airport security theater is getting more personal and technologically advanced. Meanwhile, lawmakers and privacy groups are left trying to “pause” the Department …
Conservatism’s Weak Defense of Gun Rights
In today’s climate of polarized politics, we often get the impression that the modern-day Left is beyond reproach. This fear is not off base considering that certain figures like Senator …
Tax the Rich, the Poor will Pay the Price
“Tax the Rich” has been a mantra of the more radical factions of the left wing for decades. Every Democratic candidate for president in 2020 largely rest their platforms on …