David Boaz
Cato Institute
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Fact Check: Yes, There Are Economists against Biden's $1.9 Trillion Plan
President Biden says that “every single major economist” supports his American Rescue Plan. That is not even close to true. → Read More
The Feds' Sorry Record on COVID-19
Journalists have provided powerful indictments of the federal government’s Covid response, confirming long‐standing libertarian critiques of government bureaucracy. → Read More
Tech Companies Face the Mikulski Principle
State lawmakers are greedily eyeing the profits of tech companies, operating on the principle of “let’s go and get it from those who’ve got it.” → Read More
How Is Biden's Covid Relief Bill like the Patriot Act?
President Biden is being warned not to overreach with his Covid relief plan, which is far bigger than necessary, with extraneous measures that should be considered separately. → Read More
Pro-Trump Rioters Storm the Capitol
Pro‐Trump forces hoping to overturn the 2020 presidential election broke police barricades, broke windows to enter the Capitol, entered members offices, and looted. David Boaz comments on how the conservative movement ended up here. → Read More
The Books We Read in 2020
Cato scholars recommend some of the best books they read in 2020. → Read More
Did the Libertarians Spoil the Election?
Polls show that votes for the Libertarian presidential candidate would have been split if there had been only two candidates, so Jo Jorgensen did not “spoil” the election for either Biden or Trump. → Read More
The Census Is Too Intrusive
The Constitution authorizes the federal government to conduct an “actual enumeration” of Americans, not to ask about our race, income, and other personal characteristics. → Read More
Pizza Democracy
Letting customers vote on whether a pizzeria should sell a pineapple pizza is importing the dysfunction of political decision making into the normal individualist functioning of the marketplace. → Read More
Ethics of Progress (with Jason Crawford)
If progress had to be invented, then it can be halted too. → Read More
The Importance of History
Boaz highlights how history shapes our view of the present and stresses the necessity of looking back to the Founding Fathers to learn what makes America great. → Read More
Voters Like Benefits But Don't Like Paying for Them
Americans often tell pollsters they support some government program, then change their minds if they’re told what the cost would be. → Read More
What to Be Thankful For
Americans have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day, such as the rule of law, free markets, equality under the law, freedom of speech and religion, self‐government, and the progress they generate. → Read More
The Conquest of the United States by China
Will we fight a trade war with China only to discover that through protectionism, subsidies, government pressure on firms, and erosion of the rule of law we have become more like China? → Read More
What is Libertarianism?
The fundamentals of the theory of liberty. → Read More
Lee Iacocca, RIP
Lee Iacocca saved Chrysler by getting the taxpayers to bail out the failing company, a milestone on the road to popular acceptance of corporate bailouts. → Read More
Bipartisanship Means Spending Taxpayers' Money
Bipartisanship is typically a conspiracy against the taxpayers. Here’s the latest example. → Read More
How Washington power might corrupt Google
When businesses spends their energy seeking favor from government, consumers lose out. → Read More
Bill de Blasio is America's Marxist mayor
While the nation obsesses over the right wing extremists, the mayor of New York says he'd like to do away with private property. → Read More
The Twelve-Year Sentence: Introduction
“Trying to improve the government school system in the 1990s is like a great national effort to improve horses in the 1890s.” → Read More