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Governmental “Nudges” Undermine Freedom

EPA Grading scheme for vehicles distorts our ability to act on our own judgment The Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed…

“You’re Not Welcome Here”

Why America’s Opposition to Immigration is Un-American  By most standards, Eric Balderas would be considered a model citizen. After graduating…

To Study or Not To Study

The false alternative between achieving academic goals and having fun Each September, students arrive on college campuses and prepare for…

Embracing the “Unnatural”

Imagine telling someone that human beings could use large flying machines to travel across oceans or use small talking machines…

Campus Media Response: Intellectual Property Rights Keep the Music Playing

Jake Begun of Wisconsin/Madison’s Badger Herald thinks he’s noticed something pretty funny: Every day tens, if not dozens, of albums…

Should You Be Allowed to Know What’s in Your DNA?

“You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the federal government’s latest message to Americans seeking to learn the content of their…

Campus Media Response: The Freedom to Produce: Both Moral and Practical

In an article appearing in UC Berkeley’s Daily Californian, Andrew Glidden describes the scope of the absurdity of our nation’s…

Campus Media Response: Without Oil, Kiss your iPhone Good-bye

Writing in the Texas Tech Daily Toreador Chris Leal asks us to ponder a puzzle: It seems as if we…

Campus Media Response: Keith Yost of the MIT Tech Outclasses his Peers on Muhammed Cartoon Controversy

Congratulations to Keith Yost, a columnist at The Tech of MIT, who recently put the editors of the paper to…

The Spiritual Value of Work

What’s more important – your work or your relationships? That’s the question posed by David Brooks in his op-ed in…