Civil Liberties
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‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
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Authoritarians and Extremists Exploit the Right’s Political Confusion
Conservatives face a critical task: reassert the principles that defined the movement — individual liberty, limited government, and distrust of authoritarianism — or lose it to unprincipled opportunists.
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Hashtag Handcuffs: The Global Rise of Online Speech Policing
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.
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FDR and the Quashing of Free Radio
Roosevelt used regulation and licensing to control dissenting voices on the radio. Our freedom of speech has never recovered.
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Dodger Stadium’s Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal
Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.
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Hayek at the Hair Salon: Who Decides If a Business Is ‘Needed’?
After investing thousands in her community and her dream, a young entrepreneur was denied a permit due to other salons in the area.
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Pam Bondi is Wrong: Hate Speech Is Free Speech
Power-hungry partisans want to carve out a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. But there is no such exception. Protecting the speech we hate is the only way to preserve the freedom we love.
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Psychology, Security, and the Subtle Surrender of Freedom
Tocqueville warned that freedom can erode not by force, but through the quiet surrender of responsibility.
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Assassination Is the Enemy of Liberty
Debate is inefficient, messy, and noisy — but replacing speech with political violence risks shredding the fabric of society, and suppressing truth itself.
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‘The Last Generation of Freedom’? The Quiet Growth of Global Surveillance Culture
Democracies are adopting authoritarian tools and cracking down on dissent. Technologies that once empowered citizens are now consolidating control.
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Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far
Protecting kids is a weak pretext for total digital surveillance. What’s worse, the EU’s monitoring exempted its own politicians from scrutiny. Their privacy matters, but not yours.
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Authoritarians and Extremists Exploit the Right’s Political Confusion
Conservatives face a critical task: reassert the principles that defined the movement — individual liberty, limited government, and distrust of authoritarianism — or lose it to unprincipled opportunists.
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Hashtag Handcuffs: The Global Rise of Online Speech Policing
Governments are tightening control over what citizens can say online. The worldwide slide toward punishing speech has profound consequences for open societies.
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FDR and the Quashing of Free Radio
Roosevelt used regulation and licensing to control dissenting voices on the radio. Our freedom of speech has never recovered.
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Dodger Stadium’s Dark Secret and the Human Cost of Urban Renewal
Urban renewal was not a failure of execution — it was a failure of principle. Just ask Aurora Vargas.
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Hayek at the Hair Salon: Who Decides If a Business Is ‘Needed’?
After investing thousands in her community and her dream, a young entrepreneur was denied a permit due to other salons in the area.
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Pam Bondi is Wrong: Hate Speech Is Free Speech
Power-hungry partisans want to carve out a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. But there is no such exception. Protecting the speech we hate is the only way to preserve the freedom we love.
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•
Psychology, Security, and the Subtle Surrender of Freedom
Tocqueville warned that freedom can erode not by force, but through the quiet surrender of responsibility.
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•
Assassination Is the Enemy of Liberty
Debate is inefficient, messy, and noisy — but replacing speech with political violence risks shredding the fabric of society, and suppressing truth itself.