When a policy originally intended to compensate blacks for a long history of oppression has gradually morphed into efforts to cap the number of Asian students at selective universities, something has gone badly wrong.
Author: Libertarians of Montgomery
In San Francisco, Government Failure Erases Billions of Dollars of Commercial Real Estate Valuations
San Francisco and neighboring counties were the first to impose sweeping stay‐at‐home orders at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in the US. More importantly, San Francisco and its neighbors were slower than most other population centers to relax COVID-19 restrictions.
Let Teens Work
Teenagers who work part-time see lifelong benefits.
We need to stop treating teenagers as inherently fragile, or they’ll become that way. Real-world exposure to the challenge of getting paid to do things that other people value will benefit them for the rest of their lives.
Russian Opposition Leader Vladimir Kara-Murza’s Powerful Final Statement to the Court
He made it prior to being sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
…our society will open its eyes and be horrified by what terrible crimes were committed on its behalf. From this realization, from this reflection, the long, difficult but vital path toward the recovery and restoration of Russia, its return to the community of civilized countries, will begin.
The Significance of Botched Industrial Revolutions
The Supreme Court’s 150‐year Mistake
Though the Supreme Court has come a long way in protecting equality before the law, it still refuses to protect the right to earn a living
https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-courts-150-year-mistake#readmore
Court Orders Phoenix to Clean Up Homeless Encampments in “The Zone”
Residents and business owners use public nuisance laws to force action
In other words, the city government has effectively thrown up its hands; largely ignored the plight of those experiencing homelessness, residents, workers, and business owners in The Zone; and focused instead on growing the bureaucracy, feeding the homeless-industrial complex, and eschewing short-term action for expensive, ineffective, long-term approaches
One Good Outcome of the Great Depression
…the Great Depression greatly depressed incomes and, hence, income-tax revenues. Between 1930 and 1933, these revenues fell by nearly 70 percent.