David Boaz
The right has Avatar wrong
Forget its left-wing themes. At its core, the movie is about defending property rights — something conservatives should embrace.
When government slippery slope goes vertical
Libertarians often warn about the slippery slope of government intervention: Let the government run the schools, and it may end up teaching your children values that offend you. Let the government have new powers to fight terrorism, and it may use those extraordinary powers in the pursuit of ordinary crimes. Let the federal government give [...]
Politics and corruption, together again
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is the new poster boy for political corruption, but he is really just the most recent reminder of the fundamentally grubby and corrupt nature of politics. In Illinois alone, three recent governors — liberal “reformers” Otto Kerner and Dan Walker and career politician George Ryan — have preceded Blagojevich in making [...]
