Philip Hamburger on *Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom*
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly recently said on CNBC that he has always opposed vaccine mandates like the one recently announced by OSHA under President Biden’s executive order, yet he has reluctantly chosen to enforce it as a matter of legal compliance. …
Harlow Giles Unger on “the Father to the Founding Fathers”
It has become almost cliché to note that “the pen is mightier than sword.” Years before this aphorism entered the popular imagination, however, it was John Adams who exclaimed, “Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Prior to the American Revolution…
Bob Tells Bill Frezza About his Early Career as a Lending Lawyer
Stumbling Into a Vocation
Bill Frezza: Welcome back to Real Clear Radio Hour brought to you by the The Competitive Enterprise Institute. I’m your host Bill Frezza. Please welcome specialty finance attorney Bob Zadek, who also happens to…
President Vit Jedlicka on the latest developments in the new country.
There will always be an America.
It just might not be in America.
Hong Kong, Singapore, and even Madagascar are candidates for future beacons of freedom to the world, as most of Europe and the United States have forgotten the heritage of the Magna Carta, Bill of…
Bob Levy, Chairman of the Cato Institute, discusses the nuances of individual and property rights that Biden’s new employer mandate brings up.
Where does Biden get the authority to mandate vaccination? It’s a difficult question, and everyone seems to have their opinion. Indeed, there are approximately as many opinions as there are arms that can receive the jab. Walter Olson predicts that the new OSHA-issued employer vaccine mandate will…
To the American public, it may have seemed like the War and Afghanistan came to an abrupt end last month — a month earlier than the Biden Administration’s self-imposed deadline of the 20-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks. To those who followed the “forever war” more…
The American taxpayer has long accepted that education is a public good — something worthy of funding with the common purse. Until recently, a majority of Americans, including parents, have also believed that public schools are a generally the right vehicle for that funding. However, opinion has…
Jenin Younes & Todd Zywicki join me to discuss the constitutionality of blanket vaccine mandates.
“There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.” ― George Mason
George Mason is rolling in his grave. Or at least, he was, until Professor Todd Zywicki was finally exempted from George Mason University’s new…
Ilya Somin writes persuasively that we should let in more immigrants—and not just the most obvious victims.
The sudden (but not entirely unpredictable) collapse of the American-trained forces in Afghanistan has woken much of the country up to the futility of our “forever wars” in the Middle East. Beyond the waste of a trillion dollars and countless lives over twenty years (for what?), we…
2020 was a bad year for small business. Government waged war on the entrepreneur in the name of public safety — imposing harsh lockdowns on those deemed “unessential.” Carol Roth, author of a new book “The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to…
