August 14, 2012
The following article by Senior Campus Coordinator Alex McHugh was originally published on PolicyMic: A recent Gawker article makes the case for a maximum income. In response to confiscatory income tax levels in France, Hamilton Nolan figures we […]
July 13, 2012
Studying budgets can be boring, but a budget can give good insights about the people who created it. In North Carolina’s most recent budget, compensation for victims of a past eugenics program […]
May 25, 2012
While I found Casey Given’s recent post to be timely and interesting, I have to worry about the claim that moralistic arguments for freedom should be abandoned. I’d agree that it’s not […]
April 5, 2012
Political correctness is an issue that college students like to gripe about (at least when it affects them) but doesn’t seem to actually harm anyone. So, what’s the trouble in being considerate […]
March 13, 2012
What gets you riled up? Judging by the way most libertarians advocate, you’d think its reading political theory, listening to lectures, and roundtable discussions. While I certainly find these things to be […]
February 24, 2012
I arrived at the 2012 International Students For Liberty Conference with a host of expectations. There is a great deal of variety in a movement so diverse, but on some level all […]
January 30, 2012
Last Wednesday night, Cato Institute scholar and VP of Foreign Policy Studies Chris Preble delivered a lecture to the Hoyas for Liberty at Georgetown University. His talk, which was streamed live online as […]
January 12, 2012
When I read Paul Krugman’s latest defense of Keynesian economics a few days ago, I was shocked and amazed that even Krugman fans and devout Keynesians would swallow his latest strange and rambling defense […]
December 6, 2011
On my way back to D.C. after Thanksgiving weekend, I found myself thinking a good deal about the coming weeks. Slowly returning to reality from a week of good food, solid sleep, […]
November 4, 2011
“I feel like if people don’t know that condoms have expiration dates, they probably don’t know that crony capitalism is bad!” This somewhat pessimistic picture of the average American University student was […]
October 17, 2011
One of my goals going into this semester was to engage in a good deal more civil disobedience. Now, I certainly don’t think that any activism of this sort is good for […]
September 30, 2011
It’s official: America has taken a nose dive in the economic freedom index. The Fraser Institute recently released their annual Economic Freedom of the World report, and the US dropped from 6th to […]