Liberty
Matt Ridley on Britain’s Electric Vehicle Mandate
In a new piece in the Daily Mail, the well-known science writer explains why he’ll be buying a new gas powered car before the UK’s electric vehicle mandate goes into…
Articles by Jon Guze
Liberty
Regarding the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision
This analysis by Jim Copland and Rafael Mangual is well worth reading in full. Here’s an excerpt: Today’s decision doesn’t force universities to allocate scarce student slots based on random…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Would Public Funding for NCInnovation Violate NC’s Umstead Act?
There are several reasons to oppose the proposed $1.4 billion appropriation to NCInnovation. One of them may be the questionable legality of such an arrangement. NC’s Umstead Act prohibits state…
Liberty
Clarence Thomas Is the Hardest Working Justice on the Supreme Court, and It’s Not Even Close
I’ve written before about the left’s long running attempt to smear Justice Thomas, including a disgraceful hit piece by New York Times legal correspondent, Adam Liptak, falsely implying that Thomas…
Liberty
“The new symbiotic relationship of government and private power … is the constitutional challenge of our age.”
That’s a line from a recent blogpost by consitutional scholar Randy Barnett. Here’s another excerpt: Columbia Law School Professor Philip Hamburger has an important essay this weekend on the Wall…
Liberty
A Sensible, Bipartisan Proposal Regarding Driver’s License Suspensions
Most North Carolinians probably know that the “Regulators” were a group of Piedmont farmers who opposed the heavy-handed enforcement of taxes and fees by the colonial government in the years…
Liberty
Keeping the Peace
Chicago recently initiated a policy of paying former gang members to act as “peacekeepers” in high-crime neighborhoods. Despite the presence of the so-called peacekeepers, the city experienced “tragic numbers” of shootings and homicides…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Protecting North Carolinians from Asset Forfeiture Abuse
Compared with most states’ laws, North Carolina’s asset forfeiture laws do an excellent job of protecting innocent property owners and discouraging abuse. Unfortunately, the federal government’s equitable sharing program makes…
Liberty
Cancel Culture Is Alive and Well in North Carolina
Two recent news stories about educational institutions in our state illustrate the truth of that statement. On May 1st, City Journal reported that an elite private day school in Durham…
Liberty
For Readers Who Are Worried by the Recent Study Purporting to Show that Moderate Drinkers Don’t Live Longer than Tea-Totallers…
Here’s a scathing Twitter thread debunking that study:
Liberty
More Evidence that Raising the Minimum Wage Is Bad for the Poor — and in Ways You Probably Haven’t Thought Of
In a new article at the Journal of Public Economics, Zachary S. Fone, Joseph J. Sabia, and Resul Cesur report, “Using data from the 1998–2016 Uniform Crime Reports and a difference-in-differences approach, we find robust evidence that…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other.” Despite that declaration, North Carolinians are increasingly…