Let's Scrap the Jones Act
A hundred-year-old protectionist law that makes traffic worse and goods more expensive.
Culture
Strange Bedfellows Oppose Improving Maine's Food Sovereignty Law
Grocery stores hate expanding food freedom, but why is the head of Maine's farmers market coalition so nervous?
Propaganda Art Gets Boost in Biden Budget
What else is government-funded art but propaganda for the rulers?
Rose Island
The new film never wavers in its appreciation for these seasteading heroes as they piss off all the right people in pursuit of their slice of utopia.
Tacky's Revolt
Historian Vincent Brown's new book examines the 18th-century slave insurrection, arguing it was really four different wars at once.
In the Heights Is a Charming Musical About Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Even a critic who doesn’t love singing or dancing succumbed to its charms.
Is California Over?
Why the Golden State is losing people, business, and a congressional seat
Some Food Regulators Fret Needlessly Over Eating Bugs
Cicada season reminds us that insects are a great food source for humans.
Sweet Victories: Three States Make It Easier for Home Cooks To Be Entrepreneurs
Oklahoma, Alabama, and Montana are the latest states to deregulate homemade food sales.
Why Millennials Hate Free Speech and What To Do About It
The creator of ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath makes the case against cancel culture.
New York Will Put To-Go Cocktails on Ice
Special interests are trying to stuff newfound alcohol freedom back in the bottle as the pandemic ends.
Barely Legal Strippers Now Fully Illegal in Texas
The penalty for employing 18- to 20-year-olds to work nude, topless, or "in a sexually oriented commercial activity" is now 2 to 20 years in prison.
Wittgenstein vs. the Woke
A generation of activists has imbued words and sounds with superstition.
Andrew Doyle: Free Speech and Why It Matters
The creator of Titania McGrath on cancel culture, government overreach, and younger generations' willingness to censor
There's Never Been a Better Time To Be LGBT in America
We've come a long way, baby. Don't let anybody try to convince you otherwise.
Sports Betting Pays Off
The first major intersection of college basketball and legal sports betting seems to have been a completely clean affair.
Utah Second State To Adopt Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operations Law
Will home cooking become the new dining out?
How Individualism Promotes Generosity
A new study shows that, far from increasing selfishness, individualistic societies feature higher levels of altruism.
Ron DeSantis Threatens To Capsize Cruise Ship Industry if Boats Require Vaccinations
Plus: Poll finds belief in QAnon conspiracy theory high, bill would nix double-taxing of teleworkers, and more…
Ideas Aren't Enough—Freedom Needs Good Stories
Good stories introduce people to liberty long before they think about policy.
3 Myths About American Decline
Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and lack of economic mobility.
Rethinking the Power To Take a Life
America's approach to capital punishment changed in the 1970s. It's time for another look.
Predictably, Wild Horses Are Still Suffering Due to Federal Slaughter Ban
Turns out that basing animal rights policy on the strong feelings of animal rights activists is not working out so well for the animals themselves.
Wanted: A Better Way To Think About Health Care
If social insurance plans had been designed by libertarian-leaning policy mechanics, what might they have produced?
In Army of the Dead, a Zombie Outbreak Becomes an Excuse for a Public Health Power Grab
In Zack Snyder's latest, zombies are a public health issue, much like COVID-19.
One Night in Miami
The movie depicts the fictionalized gathering of Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, who spar over what each is doing to advance civil rights.
WandaVision
The show perfectly encapsulates the feelings of grief, confusion, and isolation born of the pandemic.
In Strategy Call, Chris Cuomo Advised Brother Andrew Cuomo Not To Resign
The CNN host reportedly blamed the governor's troubles on "cancel culture."
New Campaign Against 'Woke Companies' Slams Them for Not Being Woke Enough
Plus: DOJ ditches bid to unmask Devin Nunes parody account, a fight for food truck freedom in Florida, and more...
Grant McCracken on How To Reengineer the Honor Code
"The tissue of an honor society comes undone almost instantaneously once the wolf of 'everybody does it' enters the room."
He's on Montana's Sex Offender Registry for Consensual Gay Sex—and the State Wants To Keep Him There
Plus: Cult panic, what the AT&T merger means, and more...
Italy Moves to Protect 'Artisanal Gelato'
Italy's desire to impose "standards of identity" threatens the food freedom of eaters.
AMC, Amazon Offer Up Television Adaptations of Two Hot Books
Too Close and The Underground Railroad provide wildly different experiences.
Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
Stop Using the IRS To Subsidize Parenting
In response to Biden's child tax credits, Sen. Josh Hawley proposes paying parents $1,000 per month—if they're married—and $500 per month if they're single.
Corporations Are Getting Rich off Government Aid
"I don't understand why money is leaving my pocket and going into the pocket of somebody who is wealthy."
