Many Americans could die in the coming weeks and months thanks to the FDA’s blockade on coronavirus testing. Should we consider those victims as martyrs for the principle of bureaucratic supremacy?
April 3, 2020 Fear of Healthcare Freedom
Imagine that the United States had had a system of public churching for 230 years, a system in which the federal government owned and operated public churches alongside private churches. This state-run system of public churches would be run by government employees, including ministers, and be financed through taxation. Prayers and prayer books would be devised by the federal Department of Religion. ...
The Lesson of a Crash that Cured Itself
by Wendy McElroy
If a government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only valid course is laissez-faire—to leave the economy alone. Only if there ...
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
by Richard M. Ebeling
The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has ...
Tyranny and the Coronavirus Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Crises and emergencies are the time-honored way by which people lose their rights and liberties. Join Jacob ...
Preventing Liberty from Becoming a Coronavirus Fatality
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Public attitudes about the coronavirus outbreak increasingly exhibit features of a collective panic. That development creates the danger that government measures designed to deal ...