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Help Support Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts in Western NC
In the wake of the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene across western North Carolina, countless families and communities are in urgent need of assistance. As we come together to support…
Law & Public Safety
The Constitution and Its Enemies
(In honor or Constitution Day, I’m reposting this Opinion Piece that originally appeared in the Carolina Journal in 2019.) The title of this piece pays homage to Karl Popper’s great…
Research Brief
Liberty
Solving North Carolina’s Crime Problem: Part Two
Crime is a localized phenomenon that varies greatly from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood. As a result, the burden of crime tends to be borne disproportionately by…
Research Brief
Liberty
State Employee Retiree Benefits: Promise or Pretense?
North Carolina’s unfunded liabilities for the state employee pension plan and state health plan pose a fiscal crisis to the state. Over the last decade, the value of unfunded liabilities…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
A strict separation of legislative, executive, and judicial power is guaranteed by both the North Carolina and the United States constitutions. With the connivance of progressive jurists, the progressive left…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
What Is the True Meaning of “Freedom”?
Most people think there is a common agreement on the meaning of the word freedom. But how to define freedom has been a controversy for decades, if not centuries. Protecting…
Liberty
Want to Know what Kind of Head of State Kamala Harris Would Make? Take a Look at the Record from the Last Time She Wielded Real Power
Here’s what I posted about Harris in 2015 when she was the Attorney General of California: When she was still District Attorney in San Francisco, Harris made headlines by threatening…
Liberty
SCOTUS Sends Mixed Messages About Government Suppression of Speech
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in NRA v. Vullo, I was delighted. Writing about it at the time, I praised “a unanimous opinion written by the court’s most…
Liberty
“A government official cannot do indirectly what she is barred from doing directly.”
In National Rifle Association v. Vullo, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed that principle and applied it to the superintendent of New York State’s Department of Financial Services. According to the NRA,…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Markets, Not Politics, Are The Real Problem-Solver
Politics has a terrible track record at solving problems and is zero-sum. In fact, politics typically makes the problems worse. Markets are a problem-solving machine, characterized by win-win interactions.
Liberty
Locke’s E.A. Morris Fellowship Wins 2024 Program of the Year Award
RALEIGH – The John Locke Foundation is proud to announce that our E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders has been awarded the 2024 Program of the Year by Talent Market.…
Liberty
Looking for a Constitutional Alternative to Racial Preferences in Higher Education? A Distinguished Harvard Economist Has a Suggestion
Last year, the US Supreme Court found that UNC’s system of racial preferences violated the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Now, at least partly in response to that decision, the UNC Board…