America Doesn't Need Pete Buttigieg's Forced Labor Scheme
“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything,” thundered Frederick Douglass.
“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything,” thundered Frederick Douglass.
Mayor Pete pitches a vague policy as a cure to help fix "the lack of social cohesion" that he says defines contemporary America.
A post based on my presentation at a panel on mandatory national service organized by the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
Emmanuel Macron wants teens to "value" their citizenship. Milton Friedman would be appalled.
Libertarian-ish senator plans to introduce "The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act" and force Congress to vote on Authorization of Use of Military Force.
The House, meanwhile, voted to extend it to women.
The Greatest put his life and career on the line and helped turn public sentiment against the Vietnam War.
The only fair measure would be to abolish registration and never draft anyone again.
Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie say OK. Ted Cruz calls it "nuts."
How five 20th century economists subtly remade the political landscape
I am a millennial, get me out of here!
If anything, avoiding that war was a moral duty.
An artifact from the age of peacetime conscription
A free and prosperous society should have fewer, not more people prepared to die for it at any given time
Andrew Bacevich's new book offers a powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy-but the solution it proposes is no remedy.
There's nothing like pressed labor for that feeling of community spirit
The economist who advocated "Power to the People"