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Libertarian think tank pearl-clutches about reduced Islamic migration — but it's music to MAGA ears

America's most prominent libertarian think tank released a report on Monday concern-mongering over the drastic drop in legal immigration from third-world Muslim nations under Presi...

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.

My Cato Essay Contest Entry

An email came across the other day from the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, inviting me to compete in an essay contest with some fairly significant financial prizes. Vi...

As D.C. Embraces State Economic Control, a Hopeful Project Seeks to Restore Free Enterprise

Government ownership of private companies threatens American prosperity.

Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century

A Civitas Symposium on Stephanie Slade's new book.

Populist Tariffs Very UNpopular

Writing for the Washington Post, Cato's Scott Lincicome reviews polling data about Donald Trump's favorite economic and foreign policy cure-all, and finds that Americans don't care...

New In Civitas: The Smithsonian Should Be Privatized

The Smithsonian Should Declare Its Independence from the Federal Government

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...

Who Needs Central Planning When We Have Conservatives?

Milton Friedman's monetarism is Keynesianism’s something-for-nothing variant.

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

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

Best Practices for a Last Best Hope

The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership...

AEI scholars make case against Trump tariffs

Stan Veuger and other American Enterprise Institute scholars offer a legal argument against Trump administration tariffs. For the President to invoke authority under Section 122 in...

Peter Pan Tariffs for Companies That Never Grow Up

Against the argument for "infant industry" protectionism

The U.S. Tax System Gets a Middling Score

Fortunately, we do better on overall economic freedom, despite losing ground.

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...

Free State Opposed to Price Caps on Retail Broadband

A Free State Foundation report argues that competition and targeted subsidies - not price regulation - are the better path to improving broadband affordability.

State Freedom Caucuses Chart The Path For Making Red States Great Again

The State Freedom Caucus Network gathered in Dallas over the weekend for a summit to strategize on advancing an 'America First' agenda.

Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787

9/27/1787: First Anti-Federalist letter by "Cato" is published. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 27, 1787 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Remedial Economics RE: Price Caps

At Reason, Veronique de Rugy warns us that we should be terrified of price caps.Regulars here will already know that this is an immoral and impractical idea that would distort mark...

GOP's Familiar Fight Over Big Government

State Freedom Caucus groups push conservative agenda

Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about a recent gathering of conservative state legislators. A common misconception throughout modern American politics is that, because a...

Relearning the lessons of the ‘Washington consensus’

Steven Kamin and Benedict Clements explore a successful approach toward government economic policy. Earlier this month, the United States hosted a meeting of G20 Finance Ministers...

Civic Education and Classical Liberalism

Civics centers, teaching civic and classical education through “Western civ” and great books, are often described as conservative enterprises. In a strong sense, this is manifestly...