Liberty
Warning conservatives about antisemitism, bigotry
Robert George reminds the American conservative movement about what ought to be conserved. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound…
Eugenics
a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population
Liberty
Population Control Crowd Is Wrong
Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about the poor arguments emerging from those who advocate population control. Today, the movement dedicated to limiting the growth of the human species…
Liberty
Tackling the Unhealthy Obsession with the ‘Health of the Nation’
Maureen Mullarkey writes at the Federalist about the troubling history of governments focusing on the nation’s health. Twentieth-century authoritarian regimes were obsessed with cleansing the “unfit” from the national body.…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
People interested in reducing the incidence of chronic diseases and disabilities in North Carolina ought to take a closer look at direct primary care. Katherine Restrepo explains why during the…
Liberty
‘Moral’ trickery gets dozens arrested and would disemploy hundreds of thousands
WTVD reports on a rather cynical political stunt by the NC NAACP last night in Durham: Protesters in Durham blocked traffic on North Roxboro Street Tuesday evening, demanding a minimum-wage…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Minimum Wage And The Right To Work
Do you believe that a minority teenager, maybe a high school drop out, with very few job skills, has a right to work? Or do you believe that being low…
Liberty
An inconvenient truth about the minimum wage
Steven Hayward‘s review of the book Illiberal Reformers in the latest print edition of National Review features the following observation, which should give pause to those on the political left…
Liberty
You might be a progressive if…
…you believe that “climate science,” much like the founding fathers of your movement all believed about the science of eugenics, is settled.
Liberty
Who really ‘hates’ the working poor? Their employers? Or is it people who don’t know them but want to make it illegal to employ them?
Forgive the framing of the question. I’ve borrowed it from the chest-thumping rhetoric used by those seeking a massive hike in the minimum wage. The minimum wage is steeped in Progressive…
Liberty
That moral wage morally cutting jobs. Morality in action!
What is it about the minimum wage — instituted by racist progressive eugenicists deliberately seeking to price blacks and “inferior” whites out of the job market — that appeals to modern-day…
Liberty
‘The fact that the minimum wage destroys jobs was once its main selling point’
The New Republic reviews an important new book by Thomas C. Leonard: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era. Among his revelations: The minimum wage was created to destroy…
Law & Public Safety
Supreme Court justice with some rule-of-law issues
Ian Tuttle writes for National Review Online that veteran U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears uninterested in the fundamental legal concept of the rule of law. This weekend…