In response to COVID-19, governments have activated their regulatory machinery, including detainments, surveillance, lockdowns, the shuttering of schools and “nonessential” businesses, and travel restrictions.

Our Spring 2021 Symposium addresses a host of issues related to governments’ response to COVID-19. What should be the role and limits of government in responding to health crises? How might regulations reduce well-being by stifling innovation and adaptations? How do government responses to health crises empower Leviathan in ways that threaten individual liberty?
 
This issue also features articles on free speech, property rights, economic liberty, and democracy, as well as twelve reviews of important new books.

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