Individual Liberty

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...

April 09, 2012

How Property Rights Solve Policy Problems

Whether a problem is a matter of “public policy” or “private-policy” often depends on how we think about property rights, says economist David R. Henderson. Take, for example, the debate about whether evolution or Intelligent Design theory should be taught in schools: Continue Reading...

April 04, 2012

Consumers Acting Badly

I found this video on NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ intriguing. A young woman reflects on the cost of her wedding dress, which she’s obviously worn once. She recognizes that there is enormous emotional attachment to this garment, but there is something going on in terms of how much she spent; she just can’t quite put her finger on it. Continue Reading...

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