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No One Should Need Government Permission to Work

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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the workplace in many ways—not all of them good. Last year, most states issued states of emergency and ordered all “non-essential” businesses to close their doors. Bars, restaurants, gyms, nightclubs, barber shops, golf courses, nail salons, and movie theatres were shuttered. Sporting events and concerts were banned. Schools were closed. In some states, churches and synagogues were forced to suspend in-person services and hold services in the parking lot, online, or not at all.  Yet, in some states, liquor stores, gun shops, and marijuana dispensaries were allowed to remain open. Each state published its own list of what business activity was essential or non-essential. In New Jersey, for example, bike shops were allowed to stay open, but only for repairing bikes, not selling new ones. In a market economy, every business is essential because every type of industry relies on, stimulates, and necessitates the other industries. Consumers decide which ...

Puritanism: Then and Now

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Journalist, editor, and literary and social critic Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (1880–1956) adopted the moniker “libertarian” years before it became popular to do so. In a letter of 1920, he wrote: “I am an extreme libertarian, and believe in absolute free speech.” In a book-review column of 1922, he wrote, “I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth.” Mencken has been called “the sage of Baltimore” (he was born and died there), “the most influential journalist of the first half of the 20th Century,” and “the greatest prose stylist of the twentieth century.” Wit and satire were two of his formidable weapons. The Austrian economist Murray N. Rothbard referred to Mencken as “the joyous libertarian.” Yet, he likewise maintained that Mencken’s guiding passion was individual liberty. To his good friend Hamilton ...

The State of the Republican Party

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Former vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney was one of the architects of the senseless, immoral, and unjust wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—just as he was one of the architects of the foolish first invasion of Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) as secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush. Before this, he served for ten years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Wyoming. Cheney’s daughter Liz followed in her father’s footsteps in 2016 by winning his former congressional seat. She was ousted earlier this year from her post as conference chair by the House Republican Party caucus because of her repeated rejections of the efforts of former president Donald Trump and his supporters to establish that the 2020 election was rife with fraud and stolen. Although Cheney voted with Trump 92.6 percent of the time and also voted to re-elect him in 2020, she was one of ten Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump—after ...