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1 week ago | 
lawliberty.org | Mark Carlson |James Hartley |Gage Klipper
There has been much discussion of late about the role of independent regulatory agencies set up by the Federal government. The legislature makes laws, but someone has to figure out how to implement broad laws in particular cases. When it comes to areas requiring technical expertise, can and should the legislature set up agencies outside of the control of the executive branch? The Federal Reserve, created in 1913, is one of the oldest of these independent regulatory agencies.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
aier.org | James Hartley
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men….The more dishonest a book is as a book the more honest it is as a public document.” ~G.K. Chesterton, Heretics Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns is a very bad book. Writing a review of it thus presents a challenge.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
kerrang.com | Sam Law |Jimmy Fontaine |James Hartley
October 3, 2024Words:Sam LawPhotos:Jimmy Fontaine, James HartleySlam Dunk Festival has long felt like the obvious destination for A Day To Remember. As vocalist Jeremy McKinnon promises, the Florida pop-punk-metallers’ massive and very much overdue appearance in 2025 will level Hatfield and Leeds…Hey, Jeremy! How does it feel to be making your Slam Dunk debut? “It’s awesome. We’ve heard about Slam Dunk for years, and the timing just worked out right for us to be able to do it.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam Tomkins |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
Classically, constitutions do two things. They allocate and distribute power, and they provide the means whereby the people can hold that power to account. Power and accountability are what constitutions are all about. In the modern age, a third function has been added—that constitutions also set out (or enumerate) the fundamental rights of citizens—but this third function need not concern us here. In Trump v.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94—the comic who was our last connection with mid-century America. He became famous with the live comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960), which was a big hit, selling more than 1,000,000 copies and winning him two Grammys: Best New Artist and Album of The Year.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James J Heaney |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
July 23, 2024 Trump v. United States was not an originalist decision, but the justices had no good options. Given the hoopla, the most striking thing about Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion in Trump v.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Theodore Dalrymple |Graham McAleer |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
There is a crisis of political legitimacy in both of the countries, Britain and France, in which I have a home. Both countries have an electoral system well-suited to a political life in which there are two overwhelmingly dominant parties: the Conservatives and Labour in Britain, the Gaullists and the Socialists in France.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam J. MacLeod |Mark Hall |Graham McAleer |James Hartley
On March 8, 2022, police officers in Bullhead City, Arizona, arrested Norma Thornton for serving home-cooked meals in a park near her home. The city charged her with violating an ordinance that essentially prohibits anyone from sharing food on public property for charitable purposes. Under that ordinance, individuals may share food on public property for any purpose whatsoever, so long as their motivations are not charitable or they are charging money. Thornton was not trying to profit in any way.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Nellie Bowles |Christopher M Parry |James Hartley
“Hence like most people who have substituted the habit of delusion for reality, they became hysterical whenever the root of their delusion was touched, and reacted with a violence that completely belied the openness of mind which they prescribed for others.”— Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 1952Nellie Bowles could easily have used Chambers’ observation as the epigraph for Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
aier.org | James Hartley
“Poverty, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it.” Ambrose Bierce wrote that over a century ago. Some things don’t change. With all those plans over the centuries, why does poverty still exist? Part of the problem is a matter of definition.
