The Lighthouse®
Gov. Newsom is extending California’s Covid crackdown. Could there be a better example of Robert Higgs’s “Rachet Effect” (government seeking to make permanent temporary ‘emergency’ powers) than Newsom’s Orwellian new “SMARTER Plan”? Its details will shock you.
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William F. Shughart II
What can baseball’s 1973 decision to allow designated hitters teach us about the important economic concept of “moral hazard”? Much more than you think....
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Richard K. Vedder (American Spectator)
Today’s college-aged Americans are the first generation in American history to know less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. Who’s at fault? Not the kids.
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Ivan Eland (National Interest)
Contrary to the views of many, the Framers did not create three “co-equal” branches of government. Congress was meant to be the dominant branch. The Supreme Court, with its recent presidential immunity ruling, just took a hammer blow to that constitutional arrangement.
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Volume 27, Issue 30: July 23, 2024
K. Lloyd Billingsley (American Spectator)
Gov. Newsom is extending California’s Covid crackdown. Could there be a better example of Robert Higgs’s “Rachet Effect” (government seeking to make permanent temporary ‘emergency’ powers) than Newsom’s Orwellian new “SMARTER Plan”? Its details will shock you.
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Crisis and Leviathan
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)
Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (25th Anniversary Edition)
By Robert Higgs
William F. Shughart II
What can baseball’s 1973 decision to allow designated hitters teach us about the important economic concept of “moral hazard”? Much more than you think....
READ MORE »
Richard K. Vedder (American Spectator)
Today’s college-aged Americans are the first generation in American history to know less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. Who’s at fault? Not the kids.
READ MORE »Ivan Eland (National Interest)
Contrary to the views of many, the Framers did not create three “co-equal” branches of government. Congress was meant to be the dominant branch. The Supreme Court, with its recent presidential immunity ruling, just took a hammer blow to that constitutional arrangement.
READ MORE »
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