Pope Francis has died. The first Jesuit pope and first Latin American pope has died, at age 88, after a 12-year papacy in which he advocated for the rights of migrants and the poor. “On his first Sunday as pope, greeting the vast crowd in St. Peter’s Square and a global audience following on television and social media, Francis introduced a central theme of his pontificate: God’s mercy,” writes Gerard O’Connell for America magazine, the Jesuit publication. “He had first […]
Brandan P. Buck Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Artby Walter McDougallEncounter Books, 336 pages, $32.99 , It is a common observation that we Americans do not know our history. Nevertheless, we are awash in historical argument, usually of the clumsily inaccurate and politically motivated variety. Be it the comparisons to Philadelphia 1776, Munich 1938, or Selma 1965, talking heads and popular historians seek to make sense of the present or advocate for their vision of the future […]
Tried and true cures for what ails were replaced by some clever “scientific” sleight of hand over a century ago. Now it’s back, baby, for those who can cut through the mountains of pharma-ganda and heal themselves with forbidden know-how. Humans who once lived in harmony with nature were tricked into worrying over life threatening disease to promote a load of magic-beans and phony pills by greedy shamans,…for largely preventable conditions and natural ancient remedies. Their minds were “salted” with a few […]
Cato Institute Vice President and Director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives Norbert Michel has a new book out today titled Crushing Capitalism: How Populist Policies are Threatening the American Dream. lead , Have you heard the narrative that the American Dream is dying, and that only wealthy Americans have been successful for the past few decades? That supposedly, free trade, immigration, and unabated technology have resulted in an economy that no longer works for Americans? The problem […]
Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law. Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act created federal standards for driver’s licenses. The law requires everyone applying for a driver’s license to provide the DMV with his social security number, proof of legal […]
(NA) Today, twelve blue and purple states, led by the state of Oregon, filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade challenging Donald Trump’s massive IEEPA tariffs. Their complaint is available here. The arguments advanced by the multistate plaintiffs are similar to those presented in the lawsuit the Liberty Justice Center and I presented in a similar lawsuit filed on behalf of five US businesses severely harmed by the tariffs (also filed in the CIT). They […]
William L. Anderson’s article, “Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?” on the Mises Institute website, presents a critique of the Green New Deal (GND) from an Austrian economics perspective. Anderson argues that the GND embodies the pitfalls of central planning, asserting that its ambitious goals—such as transitioning to 100% clean energy by 2030 and creating 20 million jobs through government-funded programs—are unrealistic and economically unsound. He contends that such initiatives ignore market signals, leading to resource misallocation […]
Newly uncovered guidance from the Justice Department claims the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) allows federal law enforcement officers to enter the houses of suspected gang members without a warrant and remove them from the country without any judicial review. In a March 14 memorandum, obtained by the open government group Property of the People through a public records request and first reported by USA Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs federal law enforcement officers on how to carry out […]