Individual Liberty

May 15, 2012

C.S. Lewis’s Lesson on Enterprise

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise,” wrote C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man. “We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” Continue Reading...

May 14, 2012

Are Islam and Liberal Democracy Compatible?

This was the topic of our latest Campus Martius discussion group at the Istituto Acton office in Rome. Our guest speaker was law professor David Forte, who presented some of the challenges in furthering liberal democracy in Muslim-majority countries. Continue Reading...

May 11, 2012

The Irony of Vanderbilt University’s Religious Discrimination

Recently, a Christian student group at Vanderbilt University has been told by the school’s administration that it will lose its recognized status on campus unless the group removes its requirement that its leaders have a “personal commitment to Jesus Christ.” Continue Reading...

May 04, 2012

The Free Enterprise Values of Burning Man

Each year tens of thousands of mostly underdressed people spend weeks hanging out in the Nevada desert in an “annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance.” Continue Reading...

May 02, 2012

The Soul of Liberty

Calls for freedom, democracy, and secularism end up with “none of the above,” says Hunter Baker: Continue Reading...

April 26, 2012

Why Religious Liberty Is Important for Institutions

Is religious liberty only for individuals or also for institutions? As Ryan Messmore explains, America’s founders thought that the Constitution’s “first freedom” is for both: Continue Reading...

April 24, 2012

How to Ruin the Military in One Easy Step

Since April is a time for Spring cleaning, the Washington Post asked a handful of writers what “unnecessary traditions, ideas and institutions” we should toss out with other clutter in our lives. Continue Reading...

April 18, 2012

Government Cannot Create Happiness

Robert J. Samuelson on why getting the government involved in the happiness movement will make us all miserable: Continue Reading...

April 16, 2012

U.S. Appeals Court Opinion Criticizes Supreme Court Precedents That Undermine Economic Freedom

Legal scholar Orin Kerr provides excerpts from the concurring opinion today in Hettinga v. United States, in which Judge Janice Rogers Brown (joined by Judge Sentelle) argues that the Supreme Court should overturn its rational basis caselaw in the economic area and return to a Lochner-era regime of judicial scrutiny for economic regulations: Continue Reading...

April 10, 2012

The Global Assault on Religious Liberty

Despite the rise of globalization and democracy, violent persecution of Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities is still shockingly common in many parts of the world. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has released its latest survey of religious freedom and as Doug Bandow reports, it makes for grim reading: Continue Reading...

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