Law & Liberty: Watchdog or lapdog?

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released a report that lets federal agencies off the hook for ignoring decades of race-based discrimination in college admissions, including overt anti-Asian bias at top universities.

Alison Somin asks: Is this taxpayer-funded watchdog agency actually a lapdog to progressive coalition politics?

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Property rights in Jamestown: Bowling and starving in the New World

Bad news for anyone pushing collectivism in America: The early colonists already tried it—and it went badly.

Jim Burling takes us back to 1610 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony, where all farming was decreed to be a common enterprise. The result wasn’t a bountiful utopia; it was apathy and starvation.

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The Founders hated Old World justice. Agency adjudication brings it back.

After serving King Henry VIII for over a decade, Thomas Cromwell was arrested on the King’s whim and sentenced to death without a trial. That kind of Old World “justice” was precisely what America’s Founding Fathers sought to avoid in the New World when they established due process protections for the accused.

But in one corner of our contemporary government, the Founders’ guarantee of due process has broken down.

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