The Misesian, vol. 1, no. 6, 2024
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Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics?
About 0.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as transgender, according to a 2022 UCLA study. Among 13- to 17-year-olds, the figure has grown to about 1.4 percent. That uptick in the youth might help explain why trans issues are playing a growing role in American politics. Registered voters told Gallup pollsters that transgender issues ranked […]
Silencers Aren’t “Arms” Protected by Second Amendment, Fourth Circuit Holds
From U.S. v. Saleem, decided today by Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson, Steven Agee, and Allison Rushing: The Supreme Court in Heller defined “arms” as “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.” Therefore, “the Second Amendment extends … to […]
Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends
The state and its friends re Read More Article from Mises Institute
Congress Passes Legislation to Create Needed Judgeships, but Biden May Veto
The Judicial Conference has called for the creation of additional judgeships — primarily district court seats in parts of the country plagued by judicial backlogs. The Federal Bar Association has joined the call for more judgeships, and endorsed the JUDGES Act, which would authorize 66 new district court judgeships over the next decade, staggered so […]
The Bailout Fallacy
Ruchir Sharma, a non-Austrian, gets it right. He lends strong suppo Read More Article from Mises Institute
He Was Convicted of a Felony for Holding a Gun on the Sidewalk in Front of His House
In the 1995 case United States v. Lopez, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had exceeded its power to regulate interstate commerce by making it a felony to possess a gun within 1,000 feet of a primary or secondary school. Congress responded by amending the Gun-Free School Zones Act so that it applied only to “a […]
Kindle Version of “The Digital Fourth Amendment” Is Now Available
I’m very pleased to say that the Kindle version of my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World, is now available for sale. The print version comes out January 10th, but the electronic version is out today. This is the first regular-audience book I have written—it’s about law, but […]
No, an Iranian ‘Mothership’ Isn’t Attacking New Jersey With UFOs
Something weird is going on in New Jersey, and it’s not just the swamp gas. Residents across the state have been calling in nighttime sightings of unidentified flying objects for the past month, including over military bases and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course. Neither local police nor the feds can explain what is going on—but […]
Stakeholder Capitalism and the Corporate KPI Cult
Political activists in corporate America in Read More Article from Mises Institute
Brianna Wu and TafTaj: How Have Trans Issues Scrambled Our Politics?
About 0.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as transgender, according to a 2022 UCLA study. Among 13- to 17-year-olds, the figure has grown to about 1.4 percent. That uptick in the youth might help explain why trans issues are playing a growing role in American politics. Registered voters told Gallup pollsters that transgender issues ranked […]
Silencers Aren’t “Arms” Protected by Second Amendment, Fourth Circuit Holds
From U.S. v. Saleem, decided today by Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson, Steven Agee, and Allison Rushing: The Supreme Court in Heller defined “arms” as “any thing that a man wears for his defence, or takes into his hands, or useth in wrath to cast at or strike another.” Therefore, “the Second Amendment extends … to […]
Economists and the State: From Enemies to Friends
The state and its friends re Read More Article from Mises Institute
Congress Passes Legislation to Create Needed Judgeships, but Biden May Veto
The Judicial Conference has called for the creation of additional judgeships — primarily district court seats in parts of the country plagued by judicial backlogs. The Federal Bar Association has joined the call for more judgeships, and endorsed the JUDGES Act, which would authorize 66 new district court judgeships over the next decade, staggered so […]
The Bailout Fallacy
Ruchir Sharma, a non-Austrian, gets it right. He lends strong suppo Read More Article from Mises Institute
He Was Convicted of a Felony for Holding a Gun on the Sidewalk in Front of His House
In the 1995 case United States v. Lopez, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had exceeded its power to regulate interstate commerce by making it a felony to possess a gun within 1,000 feet of a primary or secondary school. Congress responded by amending the Gun-Free School Zones Act so that it applied only to “a […]
Kindle Version of “The Digital Fourth Amendment” Is Now Available
I’m very pleased to say that the Kindle version of my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World, is now available for sale. The print version comes out January 10th, but the electronic version is out today. This is the first regular-audience book I have written—it’s about law, but […]
No, an Iranian ‘Mothership’ Isn’t Attacking New Jersey With UFOs
Something weird is going on in New Jersey, and it’s not just the swamp gas. Residents across the state have been calling in nighttime sightings of unidentified flying objects for the past month, including over military bases and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course. Neither local police nor the feds can explain what is going on—but […]
Stakeholder Capitalism and the Corporate KPI Cult
Political activists in corporate America in Read More Article from Mises Institute