Public Policy

During his administration, President Trump appointed many conservative judges–but on balance, he set back conservative legal values more than he advanced them.

Everything bad about consumerism is present in politics, where it’s much more dangerous.

If the modern police force is first and foremost a tool of oppression and predation, we ought to build different institutions to respond to crimes.

The scientific research that informs regulations falls prey to perverse incentives when it’s funded by the government doing the regulating. Here’s a better alternative.

The printing press acted as a catalyst for cohesion by creating a standard language.

We don’t need government to fund scientific research.

Drug prohibition has been catastrophic, with a tremendous human cost. Here’s what would happen if we ended it.

A boring government is the best kind of government, and cults of personality can’t do boring.

What would the world look like if money wasn’t quite as tied to governments as it is now?

Governments gather far too much information about us, and in dangerously intrusive ways. But intelligence services can be more liberty and privacy respecting.

Visions of Liberty sets out to explore libertarianism by describing the hopeful future it could bring about.

Policies that embrace freedom, innovation, and entrepreneurship while accepting risk can provide humanity with the technology to make us all freer, healthier, and safer.

When the government’s rules favor incumbent firms at the expense of current and potential competitors, we all lose.

Taxing private wealth isn’t putting idle resources to use; it’s uprooting resources already being put to productive ends in the economy.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it carve out a spot for secretive bureaucracies that never have to answer to the public.