freedom
#CapitalistAndProud Submission: Josh Nahmias
Recently at The Undercurrent, we launched #CapitalistAndProud, a national campus initiative aimed at rallying students everywhere to write in to their campus papers explaining…
Protect the Right to Innovate: Free Uber and the Taxi Industry from Regulations
The only just and fair way to resolve this dilemma is to eliminate regulations on the traditional taxi industry and…
Permission Slips are Not Rights: How Hobby Lobby’s Victory Cheapens the Right to Personal Liberty
By carving out a special exception to the ACA’s contraceptive mandates for religious freedom, the Supreme Court treats religious liberty…
Ron Paul Lacks the Principles Needed to Defend Freedom
At first glance, the Ron Paul movement appears to be a step in the right direction for freedom. But does…
Campus Media Response: Freedom: The Best Way to Cope With Climate Change
Observing a recent debate over global warming, Princeton student Miriam Geronimus criticizes the debate as distracting from more important things:…
Governmental “Nudges” Undermine Freedom
EPA Grading scheme for vehicles distorts our ability to act on our own judgment The Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed…
On The Road to Ever-More Government Control
A California county recently banned fast-food restaurants from including toys in their kids' meals. The goal of this new ban…
Is America Still the Land of Opportunity?
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman applauds a recent event honoring the finalists of Intel’s national science talent…
Campus Media Response: Immigration – Both Left and Right are Wrong
Campus groups share thoughts on immigration reform Daily Illini, November 20, 2009 Dear Daily Illini, In her article, Lori Bell…
Agenda of Truth
The national community-based group, ACORN, recently underwent some investigative journalism Sacha Baron Cohen-style. What the amateur journalist/actors/videographers found were several…