political theory

In My Opinion’s Wake IFRL-Mindiv-amos-bar-zeev-131535-unsplash

In My Opinion’s Wake

Burt Likko April 15, 2014

Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that...

The NSA and Privacy: Why Conservatives Should Not Be Sanguine

Tim Kowal June 21, 2013

Defending the NSA’s program that collects information about the American public’s phone calls and emails, President Obama...

Political and moral rights IFRL-NaPP-Space-P03-Farmers-Wanted-NASA-Recruitment-Poster

Political and moral rights

Rose Woodhouse July 5, 2012

This is adapted from something I posted the other day over at Blinded Trials. I know there...

Social Forces and Vulgar Libertarianism IFRL-Plague-Karachi

Social Forces and Vulgar Libertarianism

Erik Kain November 4, 2011

Will Wilkinson makes an important observation about the affinity between libertarians and conservatives. At the heart of...

Democracy, Coercion, & Liberty IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-loc1

Democracy, Coercion, & Liberty

Erik Kain October 30, 2011

I’m afraid that in our recent discussion of democracy and coercion the conversation tended to hew toward...

InMD in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I don't know why you'd think Trump is scared but one hopes this combined with the strongly worded 4t…
Mike on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaIsrael can take him in. He's a father of 3 or whatever. I'm guessing Hamas has people that are fathe…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedSo, yes, that sounds plausible, but also...no. It's not _just_ that. There are a lot of people who h…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a “whatabout” for every single “precedent” that the Democ…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I’m pretty sure that we’re *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, “the pr…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a "whatabout" for every single "precedent" that the Democ…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I'm pretty sure that we're *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, "the pr…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Far as I can tell, most press conferences are not open to the general public. That seems to be what…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I have to say, while I am not a Free Speech Abolutist, I am very confused. I didn't know you could a…
David TC in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I think it's worth reminding people that the Republicans are setting precedent after precedent that…