Civil Asset Forfeiture is just the beginning of Policing for Profit — Remember the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the civil unrest that followed? It seemed like a powder keg had gone off. …

Revisiting Baylen Linnekin’s *Biting the Hand that Feeds Us* — To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there are few things more terrifying than a government bureaucrat who is trying to help us. In California, we are confronted with the stuff of nightmares on an almost daily basis. …

How a radical rewrite of history undermines the American founding ideals — Back in February, frustrated San Francisco parents voted to recall three school board members for spending more time renaming schools than planning their post-pandemic re-opening. Among the school names being “canceled” were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John Muir, and even Dianne Feinstein — found guilty of exploitation and oppression. …

Guy Bentley on the latest front in the racist War on Drugs — The sun has set on the Golden Era of Tobacco, much like the bygone Golden Era of Hollywood. Perhaps once movie stars stopped smoking cigarettes on the Silver Screen, audiences found the activity less glamorous. …

A Q&A with Scott Lincicome on the Problem with Picking Winners & Losers — We’ve been hearing about the end of globalization for the better part of the last decade, and yet rumors of its demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. The latest calls for American energy independence and re-shoring manufacturing are part of this broader trend, which seeks to insulate the domestic…

Evan Bernick on Abortion, Originalism, and the 14th Amendment — Politico’s publication of a leaked draft of the decision has turned the Internet upside-down, with rampant speculation about who the leaker was, whether the decision is final, and what will happen next if early-term abortion once again becomes a policy issue for states to decide rather than a right upheld…

Art Carden on The Misuse of Knowledge in Society — The Biden administration recently announced the establishment of a Disinformation Governance Board, which many (including the Wall Street Journal) are calling a “Ministry of Truth.” …

Professor Richard Epstein on California’s Challenge to the Dormant Commerce Clause — Hoover Senior Fellow and host of the Defining Ideas podcast, Professor Richard Epstein returns to the program to discuss a new case making its way to the Supreme Court: This past week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in an important case that could determine the structure of…

“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger…