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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2026
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[B]ecause doing good and helpful things for people isn’t a duty of justice, you can’t force people to be good and helpful. You can force people not to steal or murder, because not stealing and not murdering are duties of justice. We can enforce duties of justice.
– Jason Sorens, "Do Individuals Have a Right to Do Wrong? ([link removed]) " [February 2017]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 4, 2026 Why Did Americans Abandon Freedom? ([link removed])
One of the big challenges that has long confronted libertarians is the fact that most Americans are honestly convinced that they live in a genuinely free society. It’s what might be called a “life of the lie” or a “life of delusion.” Moreover, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, being falsely convinced that one is living his life in freedom does not ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Federal Punishment of an Innocent Man, Part 1 ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Treating Peaceful American Civilians as Enemy Combatants ([link removed])
by Ted Galen Carpenter
Antiwar.com
IMMIGRATION
The Roundup: Too Much ICE ([link removed])
by Radley Balko
The Watch
In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance ([link removed])
by Michelle Goldberg
New York Times
THE FREE SOCIETY
How the Founders Explained Limits on the Federal Government ([link removed])
by Rob Natelson
Tenth Amendment Center
ECONOMICS
Donald ‘Right About Everything’ Trump Gets Prices Wrong ([link removed])
by James Bovard
Libertarian Institute
FREE TRADE
The Myth That Foreigners Pay Our Tariffs ([link removed])
by Donald J. Boudreaux
AIER
Tariffs and Inflation: Where Are We? ([link removed])
by Timothy Taylor
Conversable Economist
FISCAL POLICY
Choose Your Crisis, Congress: Six Paths to Fiscal Disaster ([link removed])
by George F. Will
Washington Post
FOREIGN POLICY
Let’s Bomb Iran ([link removed])
by Eric Margolis
EricMargolis.com
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