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The Right to Trial is Vanishing. Could Bolder Juries Save It?

A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences.

The Illusory Pursuit of Freedom of Thought: The CCP vs. the ERCP Paradigm

by cotobuzz at CDN - Which System Better Supports Freedom of Thought: the Chinese CCP or the American Model? For a free society to prosper, a marketplace of ideas is required. Cou...

The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Censorship’

The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Censorship’ Sara Brady Tue, 08/18/2026 - 03:00 AM The worst combination of mindless bureaucracy and authoritarian cont...

Pence Think Tank Releases Report Tracking Independence

Advancing American Freedom, a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is unveiling its annual Independence Index, this year with more robust study in 29 areas it sa...

Where Have All the Classical Liberals Gone?

The Market Place of Ideas is Closed, Replaced by the Overton Classroom. Look at TCU

by cotobuzz at CDN -  For a free society to prosper, a marketplace of ideas is required. Coupled with vigorous debate, the best ideas emerge victorious. That is how America became...

Brian Fitzpatrick Makes the Case for Callais

An argument in support of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act jurisprudence one is unlikely to hear in academia.

A Mixed Verdict on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act

Religious Freedom's Economic Benefits

Logan Tantibanchachai, Acton Defenses of religious freedom are often moral. They begin from the premise that conscience is not the property of the state and that no government can...

Study: Even Well-Intentioned Regulators Do More Harm Than Good

Bureaucrats who intend to do good still restrict competition and suppress liberty.

New in Civitas: Curtail the Cult of Judicial Celebrity

Another reform without changing the composition or jurisdiction of the Court.

The New York Times On Heritage Foundation 2.0

With a flashback to my resignation.

The Case for Capitalism

Democratic crypto billionaire meddling in GOP primaries

Chuck Ross writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a wealthy Democrat’s electoral shenanigans. The crypto billionaire and Democratic megadonor Chris Larsen is pouring millions...

Milton Friedman Was Right

Poindexter Ascendant

Plus: A setback for Mamdani's second-home tax, Jones Act waiver extended, Ross Douthat's final column, and more...

The College Transparency Act Is Another Form Of Big Government Surveillance

The CTA is fundamentally antithetical to Americans’ reasonable expectation that the federal government shouldn't track their life choices

Alex Nowrasteh on "Ten Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Arguments for Socialism and Why They're Wrong"

An insightful critique of ten ideas advocated by leading American "democratic socialists."

The Greater the Illegal Migrant Population, the Stronger the Case Against Mass Deportation

Cato Instiute immigration expert David Bier explains why.

Reconciling Hayek and Mill's Divergent Defenses of Liberty

As Cass Sunstein points out, Hayek and Mill had widely divergent rationales for liberty. But the two can be reconciled.

The "Free Market" is More Popular than "Capitalism"

Such anomalies are common when polling often-ignorant voters. But libertarians would do well to take note, anyway.

COMMENTARY: What made America strong didn’t come from Washington

In defense of private generosity.

The UFC Cage Match Theory of America

A new book traces American anti-egalitarianism from slavery's defenders to Silicon Valley's would-be philosopher-kings.

Opposition to data centers labeled self-destructive

Editors at National Review Online explore the growing popular opposition to data centers. Anti-data-center sentiment is sweeping the nation, and, this being an election year, polit...