Tag: Donald Trump
President Trump's 6 biggest threats to liberty
January 20, 2017 | Post
Donald Trump is president. Here are his six biggest threats to liberty.
Trump’s First 100 Days — Learn Liberty Roundtable
January 20, 2017 | Post
What follows is an extended transcript of a conversation I had with four professors about Donald Trump’s first 100 days plan. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
Did Trump win because of backlash against political correctness?
January 20, 2017 | Post
Perhaps, after eight years of creeping explicit and implicit censorship, Trump’s election can be seen as a broad referendum on political correctness.
"The Raven": Trump Edition
January 19, 2017 | Post
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, bright and cheery, In the penthouse of my tower on the fifty-seventh floor — While I sat there, Donald Trumping, suddenly there came a thumping, As of someone gently bumping, bumping up against my door. “’Tis some immigrant,” I muttered, “coming in to clean the floor — […]
Stop calling out the hypocrites
January 12, 2017 | Post
In a few short weeks, Donald Trump will assume the presidency. On executive orders, judicial appointments, political obstructionism, infrastructure spending, and war-making powers, rest assured: flips will be flopped, shoes will make their way onto the other foot, turnabout will be fair play, and libertarians of all stripes will be there to point out the hypocrisy.
4 New Year's resolutions for the Trump administration
January 3, 2017 | Post
Trump doesn’t seem like the type for self-improvement, but here are four unsolicited recommendations anyway.
Finally, a libertarian defense of identity politics
January 3, 2017 | Post
Identity politics, usually portrayed as a spectre haunting liberalism, is actually key to understanding uprisings against state power.
Trump inherits a super-powered presidency.
December 25, 2016 | Post
Now that the Electoral College has made Trump’s 2016 win final, this a good time to start thinking about what powers he will have when he comes into office in January.
It’s Your Right to Burn the Flag
December 23, 2016 | Post
The Founders understood the incentive faced by Congress and the president to exceed the constitutional limits on their power.
Democracy goes to (electoral) college
December 21, 2016 | Post
It’s healthy for us to periodically revisit these discussions about the basic structure and principles of government. It’s probably less healthy, though, to tie one’s like or dislike of the electoral college to one’s preferred outcome in any particular race.
Naughty and Nice 2016: Who made the list?
December 20, 2016 | Post
Here at Learn Liberty, we like an optimistic muffin with our bitter coffee, so we took the liberty of compiling a naughty and nice list for the holiday season.
Trump’s ban on immigration from certain countries is illegal
December 19, 2016 | Post
For almost a decade, Congress debated creating an immigration system free from discrimination by nationality, country of birth, or country of residence. President-elect Trump, however, now proposes to discriminate unlawfully against certain foreign nationals on the basis of the same protected grounds without any legislation from Congress.
Privilege, Risk, and Harm
December 18, 2016 | Post
Trump’s victory has triggered a spate of post-hoc analysis about what went wrong. One of the major narratives to take root is that Trump’s win was fueled by a rejection of PC culture and identity politics broadly.
An economic analysis of protectionism clearly shows that Trump’s tariffs would make us poorer, not greater
December 17, 2016 | Post
Trump’s base will be hurt the most by his wealth-destroying and punitive trade policy.
A rising stock market does not signal economic health
December 14, 2016 | Post
Profits and rising stock prices in a system of economic nationalism and cronyism reflect the satisfaction of the desires of those with political power.
Trump’s Secretary of Education pick is good news for religious freedom.
December 9, 2016 | Post
However, DeVos’s nomination has come under assault because she supports vouchers that enable parents to, among other options, send their children to religious schools.
Identity politics elected Trump
December 1, 2016 | Post
While many did not predict the outcome of this election, everyone knew one thing: half of the country would be devastated.
How schools and the media cover up communist crimes
November 21, 2016 | Post
An astonishingly high percentage of millennials do not know who communist leaders like Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin were.
A theory of justice, post-Trump edition
November 19, 2016 | Post
John Rawls famously argues that we should think about principles of justice from behind a “veil of ignorance.” How robust would you like the protection of religious freedom to be if you had no idea whether you turn out to be a Christian, Muslim, atheist, etc.? How would you like income to be distributed if […]
What you missed: Week of 11/18
November 18, 2016 | Post
We’re a little over a week into President Obama’s lame duck period with President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet and administration beginning to take shape. Here’s a few news stories you may have missed in that time. President-elect Donald Trump has been holed up inside Trump Tower for the last week as his team begins work on […]
Trump’s real immigration policy
November 17, 2016 | Post
Although I’m looking for reasons to be optimistic and I’m hoping my predictions about Trump continue to be as wrong going forward as they have been up to this point, the weight of evidence convinces me that his immigration policies will likely be just as bad as many of us feared.
Election 2016: politics when government becomes a weapon
November 4, 2016 | Post
As Hayek long argued, a free society is governed by general, abstract rules that are equally applicable to all persons, including government actors.
John Oliver runs out of election jokes; SNL still not funny
November 3, 2016 | Post
Last night, John Oliver realized that there was no more satirical material left on the 2016 presidential election