Senseless in Seattle
On February 12, Judge Catherine Shaffer of King County Superior Court threw out Seattle’s ban on carrying a gun at a city park, golf course, …
On February 12, Judge Catherine Shaffer of King County Superior Court threw out Seattle’s ban on carrying a gun at a city park, golf course, …
Once there was a world of few regulations and no welfare state. There were rules, of course, but there was considerable flexibility in the application …
Libertarians were cheered when Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. But Paul started his speech to …
I am in a group phone interview with Gary Johnson, the former construction-company owner and libertarian-leaning Republican who was governor of New Mexico for two …
Late last year, The New Republic published a pep talk for progressives. It was by John B. Judis and was called “Anti-Statism in America.” Its …
What of Barack Obama, one year on? I argued a year ago in these pages (“Same as the Old Boss?”, March 2009), that he was …
On November 3, in a close vote, the voters of Washington state appear to have approved Referendum 71, creating civil unions for same-sex couples with …
The homage that Western intellectuals once paid to the Soviet Union is difficult to fathom. They had no praise for Hitler and Nazism, but Lenin …
I wondered about Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty. It had begun to offer regional conferences, and the second one, in late May, was in a …
Our economic disaster: last summer I was reading about it in Paul MuoIo and Matthew Padilla’s “Chain of Blame.” This year, my nose has been …