James Harrington

1 month ago | nber.org | Andrew Johnston |Jonah Rockoff |James Harrington

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Dec 11, 2024 | galvnews.com | James Harrington

Sometimes, it’s more unsettling than usual how far Gov. Greg Abbott will go to beat up on immigrants fleeing their homes because of violence, persecution or crippling economic necessity. This time he is on a campaign that he knows will hurt the health of children and their parents and perhaps cause the deaths of some. Abbott has issued a decree that hospitals ask patients if they are U.S. citizens.

Apr 4, 2024 | galvnews.com | James Harrington

As a veteran civil rights attorney, I have often been struck about how quickly a leader’s legacy disappears from one generation to the next. Perhaps this is because, as a society, we don’t do a good job of creating a narrative about important leaders, which we pass on to our children and those who come after them. kAmp== E92E C6>2:?D[ 2E 36DE[ :D E96:C ?2>6 — ?@E E96 9:DE@CJ @7 E96:C DECF88=6 @C E96 56AE9 @7 E96:C :>A24E @?

Jan 29, 2024 | galvnews.com | James Harrington

Among a university’s variety of missions is not capitulating to politicians’ whims as University of Texas at Austin recently did by abolishing its scholarship support program for undocumented students. Universities once were sanctuaries political police couldn’t enter. They helped shape society’s future, to which diversity of thinking and diversity of students and faculty contribute.

Oct 9, 2023 | oll.libertyfund.org | James Harrington

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available [here](/pages/best-of-the-oll). Harrington provides a vision of a liberal, democratic, and constitutional society created at a time when England was in the throws of a revolution which had overturned a rigid and repressive monarchy.