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Timothy Sandefur challenges the attitude that "freedom belongs to the government and it can parcel it out to us."

Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises were right. Unfortunately, they were never as popular as economists pushing central planning.

We should stop spending taxpayer money subsidizing crackpot schemes of climate hysteria promoters like Al Gore and his rich friends.

Kids are distracted by social media and video games. But reading instruction also became lazy and political.

More than a year after the wildfires, fewer than 30 of the 13,000 destroyed homes have been rebuilt.
So far, Trump's done a lot of good ... and a lot of bad.

Heather Mac Donald points out the absurdity of the left's attack on Western civilization.

Government agencies rarely check whether their handouts go to the right people. Minnesota is just the latest example.

Boys and girls are just different. But for some reason, we're not supposed to acknowledge that.

The biggest reason for rising home prices is intrusive government. Regulations now account for almost a quarter of the cost of a new home.

How police abuse civil asset forfeiture laws to take things — money, cars, and sometimes even houses — from innocent people.

The "warmth of collectivism" doesn't last. But socialists never admit that their communes fail.
We libertarians believe people try harder and do best when individuals are free to pursue their own dreams.

Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us?

For thousands of years, the world had almost no wealth creation. Then, some countries tried capitalism. That changed everything.
"The surveillance infrastructure we're trying to put in place in the United States is heading directly towards where China currently is."

"We have way overcorrected. You can have meritocracy in an institution, or you can have diversity. You cannot have both."
Abundance doesn't happen by accident. It won't continue if we forget where it came from.

Today, America is one of the richest and most inventive countries in the world. Will our "golden age" continue?