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Libertarian Podcast: Native Americans and the North Dakota Pipeline Controversy

October 10, 2016

Richard Epstein probes the legal and policy arguments made by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as it attempts to block the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Discuss this podcast ...

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The Libertarian: The Civil-Right Bullies

September 29, 2016

Richard Epstein describes the dramatic failure of the federal government’s attempts to balance anti-discrimination laws against religious liberty protections. Discuss this podcast at Hoover.

The Classicist: A Dangerous Four Months

September 22, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson explains why the waning months of Barack Obama’s presidency may turn out to be one of the most volatile periods for national security that America has seen ...

The Libertarian: Dissecting the Clinton Tax Plan

September 21, 2016

Richard Epstein analyzes the various components of Hillary Clinton’s tax plan and proposes a classical liberal alternative. Discuss this podcast at Hoover.

The Libertarian: Taxing Apple

September 16, 2016

Richard Epstein argues that the European Union’s decision to impose heavy tax penalties on Apple may not be quite the disaster that critics suggest. Discuss this podcast at Hoover.

The Libertarian: The Dangers of the Martin Act

September 7, 2016

Richard Epstein looks at the uses and abuses of the Martin Act, a New York law that has given activist attorneys general a free pass to persecute their political opponents. ...

The Classicist: Trump’s Immigration Pivot

September 6, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson examines Donald Trump’s shifting tone on immigration — and provides a prescription for what a sensible immigration policy should look like. Discuss this podcast at Hoover.

The Libertarian: EpiPens and Drug Pricing

September 1, 2016

Richard Epstein responds to the recent controversy over sharp increases in the price of EpiPens and explains the economic dynamics underpinning the larger debate about prescription drug costs. Discuss this ...

The Classicist: The Great Regression

August 31, 2016

Victor Davis Hanson explores the tensions between technological progress and cultural vitality. Discuss this podcast at Hoover. READ MORE: The Great Regression: Today, It Seems that Orwell’s 1984 Would Better Have Been ...

The Libertarian: Black Lives Matter and the Police

August 25, 2016

Richard Epstein tackles the NLRB’s ruling allowing graduate students to unionize, a federal judge’s injunction against the Obama Administration’s transgender restroom regulations, and a move to restore voting rights for ...

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World

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel

By David French

To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from ... Read More

White House

The Bogus Story That Launched a ‘Collusion’ Probe

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Editor’s note: Andrew C. McCarthy’s new book is Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. This is the fourth in a series of excerpts; the first can be read here, the second here, and the third here. The George Papadopoulos Origin Story has never added up. It has been ... Read More

Video

Five Cops Were Arrested in Relation to Stormy Daniels’ Arrest

They're facing charges. Read More

Law & the Courts

Rachel Maddow’s Racial Smear of Second Circuit Nominee Steven Menashi

By Ed Whelan

In a 2010 law-review article titled “Ethnonationalism and Liberal Democracy,” Second Circuit nominee Steven Menashi argues that “ethnonationalism remains a common and accepted feature of liberal democracy that is consistent with current state practice and international law.” Menashi’s specific ... Read More

Sports

It’s Time for Colin Kaepernick to Move On

By Kyle Smith

Colin Kaepernick. Remember him? Below-average quarterback. Above-average poseur. Not “activist,” not really. Activists actually say stuff. Kaepernick almost never says anything. He’s like the Queen or most popes — you have to read the deep-background musings of supposed members of his inner circle to get ... Read More

Economy & Business

How the Government Creates Wealth Inequality

By Chris Edwards

There are economic storm clouds on the horizon, but for now wages are rising, jobs are plentiful, and poverty is falling. Democrats running for president need an economic line of attack, so the solution has been to focus on wealth inequality. Senator Bernie Sanders claims that there has been a “massive ... Read More

World

America’s Other ‘Special Relationship’ Remains Worth Preserving

By Kevin D. Williamson

Clifford May tells this story about George Schultz sending off newly confirmed ambassadors as secretary of state: “He would show them a very large globe. And he would spin the globe, and he would say, ‘Show me your country.’ And with great pride, they’d point out Brunei or Equatorial Guinea or some place ... Read More

U.S.

The Age of Miscalculation

By Kevin D. Williamson

On August 7, 1998, more than 200 people were killed in terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. Americans learned three names most of them never had heard before: Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, and al-Qaeda. On August 20, 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered a ... Read More

U.S.

Apparently, Everyone Just Forgot about the Allegations against Mark Halperin

By Jim Geraghty

In case you’ve forgotten, the allegations against former ABC News director, author, and MSNBC commentator Mark Halperin were really bad -- violent, explicitly sexual, groping, exhibitionism -- and they came from a dozen women. When Halperin departed the scene, he denied the allegations of violence and unwanted ... Read More

Sports

Jay-Z Joins the Ranks of the Insufficiently Woke

By Jim Geraghty

Rapper and mogul Jay-Z announced his company’s new partnership with the National Football League and has made much of the social-justice Left furious: I think that we forget that Colin [Kaepernick]’s whole thing was to bring attention to social injustice, correct? So, in that case, this is a success; this is ... Read More