A recently introduced Colorado bill seeks to require judges to consider “misgendering” as a form of “coercive control” during child custody disputes. If passed, the bill would pose a major threat to parents’ First Amendment rights and prevent judges from considering the individual circumstances surrounding family conflict over a child’s gender identity. The bill, the […]
“This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children,” Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of 11- to 13-year-olds in Florida. Baffling, because I did not write—not on X, and not in my Sex & Tech newsletter about the […]
An influential strategist from a NATO member commiserates. https://thecradle.co/articles/blue-homela Read More Article from LewRockwell
Today’s guest is Harvard economist Jason Furman, who was one of former President Barack Obama’s chief economic advisers and an architect of the Affordable Care Act. These days, he’s in the news for his withering critique of former President Joe Biden’s dismal economic record and two-fisted attacks on President Donald Trump’s trade policy. We talk about Furman’s defense […]
Legislators love misnomers. The USA PATRIOT Act “increased patriotism” by reducing domestic freedoms. The Inflation Reduction Act increased inflation before our eyes. And since its introduction in 1980, the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) has dramatically increased the amount and complexity of government paperwork. The PRA was last updated in 1995. Websites back then were extremely […]
In light of President Trump’s newfound friend and ally Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who has labeled himself as the “world’s coolest dictator,” it is worth asking whether El Salvador’s legal system will now serve as a model for the United States. Consider the right of habeas corpus, which legal scholars since the […]
Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, by Quinn Slobodian, Zone Books, 272 pages, $29.95 Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Boston University, has convinced himself that Trumpism traces its intellectual origins to the Austrian economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. He first postulated his Austrianism-to-Trumpism thesis in a pair […]
Donald Trump Impeachment Resolution Issued in Texas Newsweek Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
Over the course of the past three millennia, Western Civilization has faced many apocalyptic challenges and existential threats, both internal and external. I believe we stand today, as a civilization, quivering on an oscillating precipice facing perhaps our greatest danger, one as real and threatening as the series of Medieval invasions from multiple hostile forces, […]
“To date nothing has been done,” federal Judge Paula Xinis told a lawyer with the Department of Justice (DOJ), rebuking them, referring to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. “Nothing.” The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past Thursday instructing the Trump administration to facilitate the Salvadoran man’s return to the United States. “The order properly […]