In what ways would an ancap society make your life personally more difficult?
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In Brazil
Does the Brazilian government have legitimacy? Many say that what matters is a “social contract”. Really? This concept was introduced in the work Leviathan in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Forgetting this boring part of the story, let’s get to the point. Does the “social contract” not exist?? After all, I have never signed anything that would oblige me to support a system that does not fulfill its basic obligations, such as guaranteeing security, […]
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Nicaragua’s Regime Wages War on Religious Freedom
Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International Christian Concern’s (ICC) Global Religious Persecution Index. The regime’s crackdown on religious groups is not an isolated campaign—it mirrors a broader attack on civil liberties. “As is the case in many communist countries, Nicaragua has come to view religion as an enemy of the state,” the ICC notes in its report. “[President Daniel] Ortega has led the country’s new […]
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Politicians Won’t Solve Our Spending Problem Unless We Make Them
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The Federal Loophole That Fuels Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
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The Supreme Court Should Save TikTok
Thomas A. Berry In April 2024, President Biden signed an unprecedented law that required TikTok to either “divest” from its parent company ByteDance by January 19, 2025, or cease operations in the United States. Such divestment would likely be infeasible because ByteDance owns much of TikTok’s code and employs many of the engineers who make TikTok run. And even if it were feasible, American TikTok users would lose access to content from outside the country, fundamentally changing the […]
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When New Jersey Hiked Minimum Wages, Fast Food Prices Rose
As New Jersey ratcheted up its minimum wage on three occasions between 2019 and 2021, fast-food restaurants in the state responded by hiking menu prices to compensate. In neighboring Pennsylvania, where minimum wage hikes weren’t mandated, those price increases did not occur. That’s the notable (if perhaps unsurprising) finding reported in a paper published this week. Kerry Papps, an economist at the University of Bradford, and Michael R. Strain, a Georgetown University economist and director of economic policy studies at […]
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