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Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg

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.

J.D. Tuccille | 5.1.2019 1:15 PM

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Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg's National Service Plan Is a Really Bad Idea Whose Time Might Have Come

Mayor Pete pitches a vague policy as a cure to help fix "the lack of social cohesion" that he says defines contemporary America.

Nick Gillespie | 4.17.2019 3:35 PM

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1968

We've Got Good News…

A look at the victories we've won in the last half-century

Jesse Walker | 11.25.2018 6:00 AM

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National Service

Why Mandatory National Service is Both Unjust and Unconstitutional

A post based on my presentation at a panel on mandatory national service organized by the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.19.2018 3:38 PM

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France

Sacre Bleu! France to Reinstate Mandatory National Service for 16-Year-Olds

Emmanuel Macron wants teens to "value" their citizenship. Milton Friedman would be appalled.

Joe Setyon | 6.29.2018 10:10 AM

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Rand Paul

Rand Paul Wants to End the Draft and Force Congress to Vote on Authorizing War

Libertarian-ish senator plans to introduce "The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act" and force Congress to vote on Authorization of Use of Military Force.

Anthony Fisher | 6.8.2016 5:41 PM

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Rand Paul

Rand Paul to Introduce Muhammad Ali Bill to End Selective Service

The House, meanwhile, voted to extend it to women.

Ed Krayewski | 6.8.2016 5:14 PM

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Vietnam

Muhammad Ali Was America's Most Effective Anti-War Advocate (And Still Is)

The Greatest put his life and career on the line and helped turn public sentiment against the Vietnam War.

Anthony Fisher | 6.6.2016 3:29 PM

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Big Government

Friday Funnies: Uncle Sam at the Bar

Chip Bok | 2.12.2016 7:00 AM

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End, Don't Extend, the Draft

The only fair measure would be to abolish registration and never draft anyone again.

Sheldon Richman | 2.11.2016 8:00 AM

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Military

Should Women Be Required to Sign Up for the Military Draft?

Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie say OK. Ted Cruz calls it "nuts."

Ronald Bailey | 2.8.2016 9:55 AM

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Libertarian Moment

Mainstreaming Liberty

How five 20th century economists subtly remade the political landscape

Veronique de Rugy | 10.1.2015 12:00 PM

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National Service

To Destroy ISIS, Conscript Millennials, Says Baby Boomer Journalist

I am a millennial, get me out of here!

Robby Soave | 6.17.2015 10:40 AM

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Vietnam

I Avoided Fighting in Vietnam and Have No Regrets

If anything, avoiding that war was a moral duty.

Sheldon Richman | 5.3.2015 12:01 AM

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Conscription

Friday A/V Club: Uncle Sam Reminds You to Visit Your Local Draft Board

An artifact from the age of peacetime conscription

Jesse Walker | 2.27.2015 11:01 AM

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Ben Carson

Ben Carson's Comparison of ISIS to the Founding Fathers: Bad Politics, But Worse Thinking

A free and prosperous society should have fewer, not more people prepared to die for it at any given time

Matt Welch | 1.16.2015 12:35 PM

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Conscription

Does Declining Volunteerism Mean We Need National Service? Only If You Don't Count Money

Matt Welch | 1.2.2015 2:46 PM

Conscription

Remember Walter Oi, Who Helped Expand Freedom By Ending the Draft

J.D. Tuccille | 1.8.2014 12:46 PM

War

Would Conscription Put the Brakes on War?

Andrew Bacevich's new book offers a powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy-but the solution it proposes is no remedy.

Anthony Gregory | 9.28.2013 3:00 PM

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Health Care

It's Not Smart for Cops To Pick Fights With Doctors and Nurses

J.D. Tuccille | 8.16.2013 8:38 AM

Fourth Amendment

Judge Orders Doctors To Pump Prisoner's Stomach, Doctors Tell Judge To Piss Off

J.D. Tuccille | 8.15.2013 8:33 PM

Conscription

Austrians Vote To Maintain Conscription

One of the last vestiges of slavery

Reason Staff | 1.22.2013 2:28 PM

Europe

Austrians Vote to Keep the Draft

John Ross | 1.21.2013 8:00 AM

Natural Disasters

New York Sentences Petty Criminals to Sandy Relief

There's nothing like pressed labor for that feeling of community spirit

Reason Staff | 12.21.2012 4:40 PM

War

Drafting Millions, What Wouldn't it Solve? Asks New York Times Op-Ed

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.11.2012 11:05 AM

Milton Friedman

It's Milton Friedman's World: We're Just Living Freely in It

The economist who advocated "Power to the People"

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2006 3:02 PM

Social Institutions

Overcoming Merit

The illiberal agenda behind the "overclass" hype

Virginia Postrel | 10.1.1995 12:00 AM

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