Review: Illustrating Britain's Victorian Booze Restrictions

Review: Illustrating Britain’s Victorian Booze Restrictions

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In an effort to discourage alcohol consumption during the late 19th century, British temperance groups produced and circulated “drink maps” showing where people in particular cities could buy booze. That counterintuitive strategy reflected the conviction that easy access to alcohol was patently scandalous—a threat to public morals and health that could be mitigated by local licensing authorities once they knew exactly how easy it was to get drunk. As Kris Butler explains in his copiously illustrated Drink Maps in […]

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THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE INCOME TAX

THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE INCOME TAX

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HERE’S THE LIBERATING TRUTH IN A NUTSHELL: The income tax is a benign, Constitutional tax that simply doesn’t apply to the earnings of most Americans. The tax laws themselves, scores of United States Supreme Court rulings, and every other relevant authority all acknowledge this truth in no uncertain terms. The federal and state governments acknowledge this themselves, and have been doing so for years now since this book first revealed the truth about the tax in complete and […]

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Some Links

Some Links

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Tweet Phil Gramm and Robert Topel, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, make the case for more open immigration. Three slices: In a country with widespread use of quotas, preferences and set-asides, we seldom see unadulterated merit, especially in academics. As board members of a foundation that awards scholarships based on merit and financial need, we have seen what merit looks like. The findings are important enough to share. ….. When awarding scholarships, the foundation ignores applicants’ race […]

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Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

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“In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own whims and fancies. But his customers’ whims and fancies are for him ultimate law, provided these customers are ready to pay for them. He is under the necessity of adjusting his conduct to the demand of the consumers. If the consumers, without a taste for the beautiful, prefer things ugly and vulgar, […]

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The Growing Intersection of Reproductive Rights and Digital Rights: 2024 in Review

The Growing Intersection of Reproductive Rights and Digital Rights: 2024 in Review

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Dear reader of our blog, surely by now you know the format: as we approach the end of the year, we look back on our work, count our wins, learn from our misses, and lay the groundwork strategies for a better future. It’s been an intense year in the fight for reproductive rights and its intersections with digital civil liberties. Going after cops illegally sharing location data, fighting the data broker industry, and building coalitions with the broader […]

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