Jeremiah Smith said he didn’t want toys for his birthday. Rather, the five-year-old Durham boy said he wanted to feed the homeless. More from WRAL: Jeremiah and his family received…
Russ Roberts is one of the most thoughtful and articulate economists around, whether in rap videos, animated poems, novels, or his weekly EconTalk podcast. A recent conversation he had with Martha…
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals virtually ignored a trial court’s opinion when throwing out North Carolina’s 2013 election law, including the provision requiring photo identification for voters. Jon…
Libertarians are often accused — with some justification — of relying too much on free markets as the answer to all of society’s thorny public policy questions. Duke University political…
This morning, I came across this story: Land trust preserves Sandy Mush land. Here’s the short version. In the ’70s, a commune bought some land and moved to the mountains…
Among the current fads on American college campuses is “sustainability.” As we read in this piece, students at UNCW want the school to impose an additional $5 fee on all…
So argues Nelson Hultberg in this Future of Freedom Foundation article. Before charitable relief became a government obligation in the 1930s, Americans cared for the hungry, the sick, the handicapped…
The standard, snide, leftist dismissal of libertarians is that we’re only in favor of individual greed and personal pleasure. In this superb Freeman column, Duke professor Michael Munger gives a strong…
On Saturday, for the first time in six years, Hugh Hollowell and his charitable organization, Love Wins, were told that they couldn’t hand out breakfast biscuits to the homeless in…
In her News & Observer op-ed, Dr. Helen Ladd, a professor of public policy at an elite private university, claims that North Carolina’s public schools are under attack by those…
Now that a majority of Americans seem to believe in government as the go-to answer for whatever ails us, thank goodness there are still some people who understand that a…
Statists are using Hurricane Sandy as proof that we need big (yea, even bigger) government to cope with natural disasters, but in this piece, Sheldon Richman argues that disaster responses…