Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious entrenchment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
– Judge Louis D. Brandeis |
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June 5, 2024
A Century of Immigration-Control Failure
On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol was established “for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. In 1925 its duties were expanded to patrol the seacoast.” If there is anything everyone in the … |
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Border Tyranny
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Libertarian advocates of immigration controls always focus solely on the issue of immigration controls and never on the police state that comes with them. … |
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Time to Separate Piety and Politics
by James Bovard
The First Amendment of the Constitution specifies, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In … |
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Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs
by Laurence M. Vance
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump … |
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