The Tyranny of the Majority

The Tyranny of the Majority

Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by a little-known colonial-era preacher, addresses the age-old question of...
War and Big Government Go Hand-In-Hand

War and Big Government Go Hand-In-Hand

War and big government go hand-in-hand. James Madison warned us. “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” Madison specifically notes that wars require armies,...