About my five conceptions of liberty framework, one of the excellent questions Flagg posed was this: “A libertarian might ask: Really how much distance is there between No. 1 and #No. ? Is the ...

Political philosophers have explored the relationship between economic liberty and human flourishing for centuries, and this relationship continues to play an important role in political debates today ...

A draft version of new article on "Immigration and the Economic Freedom of Natives" (forthcoming in a symposium in Public Affairs Quarterly) is now available on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Much of the ...

Observers agree that economic liberty is important for economic growth, personal well-being, and even human flourishing. At AEI on Friday, the authors of several economic freedom indexes discussed why ...

It is hard to start a business that works. Most people do not attempt it. The reasons are complex, but the World Bank’s Doing Business report finds only a handful per 1,000 adults worldwide start new ...

In his May dissent in Ladd v. Real Estate Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht berated his colleagues for letting a legal challenge proceed ...

For years, populists on both the left and right have griped that Washington is in the thrall of libertarians, market fundamentalists, or perhaps neoliberals—despite the rarity of any politically ...

As Congress and Americans debate the potential repeal and replacement of Obamacare, at the heart of the issue is whether government should be in the business of taking money from taxpayers in order to ...

An excited entrepreneur in the social-media space takes a walk with Mark Zuckerberg through the woods. He reportedly shares his product road map with Zuckerberg, and then reads a few weeks later that ...

Selling homemade baked goods without a license can get you six months in Wisconsin. In Iowa, braiding hair without a year of cosmetology school is punishable by up to a year in prison. So is the ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — A new report is showing the impact Liberty University has on the Lynchburg area and beyond. On Tuesday, LU said its "constant growth in local and statewide economic influence" ...