reason.com: Signal Chat Controversy Is an Endorsement of Encryption Software -- https://tinyurl.com/2yctakbc -- Popular encryption apps are probably secure if government officials rely on them. #liberty #news
reason.com: Pam Bondi Aims To Revive a Moribund Legal Process for Restoring Gun Rights -- https://tinyurl.com/277szje2 -- A new Justice Department rule could help prohibited persons who pose no threat to public safety. #liberty #news
mises.org: Skin Tone Products, Markets, and “White Privilege” -- https://tinyurl.com/2cbwhbue -- Lack of products that precisely match skin tones are often said to be evidence of “white privilege,” yet the market division of labor provides the basis for very specific goods and services. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Struggle for Liberty -- https://tinyurl.com/225t9bta -- This week, David Gordon draws insights from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought—a new Mises book that adapts Raico‘s lecture series into a footnoted, annotated volume. #liberty #news
reason.com: Ghiblifying the Fent Trafficker Deportation -- https://tinyurl.com/28fhd8hh -- Plus: New York state cut off from federal funding, Phil Magness on tariffs for JAQ, and more... #liberty #news
mises.org: Herbert Hoover, Enemy of Free Markets -- https://tinyurl.com/24c47hd6 -- An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover‘s response to the Depression was to let the free market work. This is totally false. #liberty #news
reason.com: Phil Magness: The Problem With Trumponomics -- https://tinyurl.com/28gb8oj9 -- Economic historian Phil Magness on the real history of tariffs and why Trump is so wrong about them. #liberty #news
mises.org: Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism -- https://tinyurl.com/29ee3xbc -- This collection of essays by experts in diverse fields applies libertarian philosophy and free-market economic theory to literature and media. #liberty #news
mises.org: What Made Europe Different -- https://tinyurl.com/2djut26s -- The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This story goes back many centuries. It goes back into the Middle Ages. #liberty #news
mises.org: Contrary to “Distorians,” Herbert Hoover did not Favor Laissez-Faire -- https://tinyurl.com/2yobugzr -- An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover failed to respond to the Great Depression because he believed in laissez-faire economics. This historical record shows, however, that Hoover intervened in the economy, thus blocking an economic recovery. #liberty #news
reason.com: Arizona Legislators Are Immune From Traffic Tickets During Session. A New Proposal Wants To Change That. -- https://tinyurl.com/249lrj78 -- Legislators have used the state Constitution to avoid accountability for egregious traffic violations. #liberty #news
mises.org: What Might Austerity Look Like in 21st-Century America? -- https://tinyurl.com/27oufdlh -- Is “austerity” in the future for the US Government? Awash in debt and facing economic crises, the government may have to go on a diet, something neither Congress nor the president want to do. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Far-Left’s Violent Attacks on Tesla are Revealing -- https://tinyurl.com/27xu7pec -- Some protestors now vandalize Teslas to oppose Elon Musk’s politics—unwittingly serving the very political powers they claim to resist. #liberty #news
reason.com: Federal Court Rules Migrants Have Right to Hearing to Challenge Alien Enemies Act Deportations -- https://tinyurl.com/25jexf55 -- Judge Boasberg ruled the migrants are entitled to due process in determing whether they really are alien enemies covered by the Act. #liberty #news
reason.com: Yanking the Funds -- https://tinyurl.com/27dpaj4h -- Plus: Welfare strings, dildo sales, war authorization, and more... #liberty #news
reason.com: DEI Is Dying in the Private Sector -- https://tinyurl.com/23zz2odh -- Diversity, equity, and inclusion sound good. But DEI programs divide people more than they empower. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Far-Left’s Violent Attacks on Tesla are Revealing -- https://tinyurl.com/2dcxf5ms -- The leftists destroying and defacing Teslas to protest Elon Musk’s foray into American politics provide the latest example of the American far-left being easily co-opted into playing directly into the hands of the political establishment. #liberty #news
mises.org: Markets Need More than Rate Cuts to Recover -- https://tinyurl.com/294rcd3r -- Market participants will need more than rate cuts. We need to see real rates falling, inflation under control, and the deficit slashed. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Rise of the State and the End of Private Money -- https://tinyurl.com/2yfybohq -- The history of the rise of the state is a history replete with efforts by national states to replace private-sector money with state-controlled money. #liberty #news
reason.com: Sleepwalking Into a Cashless Society -- https://tinyurl.com/27gaulgr -- Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction. #liberty #news