Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?
It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.
It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.
As long as there have been laws, there have been attempts to silence people.
The education pioneer's authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children's independence.
Were liquor suppliers across the world guilty of outrageous abuses that explain the prohibitionist response?
Despite all the controversy it has courted, Woody Holton's newest book doesn't stray very far from other scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution.
"A future of bloodless global discipline is a chilling thing."
A World After Liberalism details the rise of a young right that finds reactionary ideas relevant and appealing.
In the face of state failure, neglect, and overt hostility, black Americans need the right to bear arms.
Can humans design products that assemble (and disassemble) themselves?
How Michel Foucault's encounters in Poland's heavily policed gay community informed his ideas
How the war on terror facilitated Communist China's repression of Uyghurs
Cato economist Ryan Bourne's new book is a much-needed rejoinder to the obtuse economic reasoning of many pandemic-era policy makers.
Sohrab Ahmari's case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
We can stop obsessing about Islamic terrorists crossing the Southern border.
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
With panic in the air, federal law enforcement seized the moment.
That time a civil rights activist teamed up with Richard Nixon to build a black-run town in rural North Carolina
America's approach to capital punishment changed in the 1970s. It's time for another look.
If social insurance plans had been designed by libertarian-leaning policy mechanics, what might they have produced?
The integralist right's foolish crush on the man who once ruled Portugal
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
It strains credulity to believe random tweets can lead otherwise normal people to drive across the country and stage an insurrection.
Despite some interesting tidbits, a new history of the game falls short.
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
The desire to know one's fortune seems to be an instinctive human urge.
Nothing in U.S. history suggests that ordinary Americans are isolationists—but nothing suggests they've embraced international adventurism either.
Maxine Eichner's The Free-Market Family laments the bad public policy that makes it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, but often arrives at the wrong solutions.
Jim Bouton pulled back the curtain on the MLB and changed the perception of sports forever.
The members of Steve Bannon's international circle share an outlandish spiritual-historic vision, but their threat to liberty is more mundane.
How can a place that we're intimately familiar with—more than half of America lives in the suburbs—be so unknowable?
The Founders understood union as a strategic necessity, not a moral imperative.
How politicians used the drug war and the welfare state to break up black and Native American families
How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it
How did California's housing shortage happen and why is it so intractable?
Occultists, social justice warriors, and techno-utopians may not look like the Christians of yore, but they're more religious than they realize.
Human beings' disturbing capacity to manufacture history to serve our own ends
A look at war through the lens of the performance enhancers that help make it possible