As COVID-19 was throwing its first punches, many pointed to it as a clear example of the kind of crisis that could justify large-scale government intervention into regular social routines, and then in the economy. It was feared that minimizing government’s role in the crisis would result in millions
In April 2018, the Trump administration signed FOSTA—a combination of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act—into law, ostensibly a response to the Section 230 protections which kept Backpage.com (a website known for its advertisements for sex workers) from being held
Thanks to the outcome of the 2020 election, the denial of a two-term Trump presidency has raised spirits among many Americans who felt like they were living in darkness for the last four years. While the end of Trump’s time in office in no way means the end of
“Antisemitism, like racism…requires intent,” Ben Shapiro declared. Shapiro was defending his decision to hire actor Gina Carano to a movie deal, despite the fact that she had shared an ugly antisemitic meme on social media. The meme showed old men with piles of money conspiring to control the globe;
We live in a time when critics deride “cancel culture” as narrowing the range of acceptable opinions. When others contend that what is called “cancel culture” is merely a justified reaction to hate speech and bigoted views that for too long went unchallenged. When social media is flooded with trolling,
Public wellbeing is being reimagined before our eyes. In Minneapolis, the city committee has chosen to end its police department. A growing number of urban areas, including Los Angeles and New York City, have focused on defunding its police departments and reinvesting the cash in less developed communities. Additionally, regions
Most parents, and most adults, don’t like to think about parents as tyrants. Usually instead parents are framed as selfless and hard-working, while children are framed as entitled and needy. Kids are lovable, but also demanding and draining. Parents, we’re told in sitcoms and in parenting advice columns,
“What happened to Brock??” I will never forget the moment I saw these words. On Monday morning more than two years ago now, I was walking towards my son’s daycare to drop him off that morning, and I had checked my phone and seen that there was an unread
In terms of economic progress, today’s capitalist-based format, which has triumphed in many corners of the globe, is preferable to an imaginary world full of closed, state-run economies and Soviet imitators. However, the case for certain trade policies, regimes, and norms is often overstated by market liberals who rush
When it comes to gender confirmation surgery, insurance coverage can be a difficult web of hypocrisy to weave through. Transgender men and non-binary people, such as myself, experience numerous roadblocks from insurance companies for gender-affirming procedures and are commonly denied coverage for additional “cosmetic” costs. Meanwhile, cisgender women are able
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own
It’s an article of faith among some anarchists and authoritarians that voting is an irrational action. There’s a proof, somewhere, in a book—was it Democracy and Decision by Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky? or was it The Ethics of Voting by Jason Brennan? Brennan somebody—anyway, everyone