The Advocates for Self-Government

You are on a routine doctor’s visit. Two people are in the room; you and the clinician.

Now count the parties who aren’t there but are making decisions on your behalf: the insurer who decides what your visit is worth, the billing coder who defines your body for payment purposes, the regulator who told the insurer what it may cover, and the compliance organization that s...

Most Americans who start a business more or less do it on their own dime. They raid their savings, lean on family, maybe max out a credit card, and then hope. Kauffman Foundation research found that 83% of new employer businesses h...

The case of the so-called Cornell 7, in which a young woman voluntarily engaged in group sex before later feeling ashamed and accusing her various partners of sexual assault, has many calling into question the nature of consent. Can consent be withdrawn after the fact? Is it possible to give consent after consuming alcohol? And is consent even the metric we should use to diff...

The morning of their long-planned coastal trip dawned bright and clear. The Kane family loaded the van with beach bags, snacks, and Ellen’s ever-present sketchbook, while the neighborhood feed hummed with weekend traffic updates. Alex double-checked the routing app. Three different road networks lay between them and the shore — each with its own owners, covenants, and pricing...

Whenever someone suggests that we don’t need a monopoly government, the hackneyed response is, “But who will build the roads?!” This happens so often that it’s become an inside joke in market-anarchist circles.

The objection is usually presented as a mic-drop, as if, absent government, we’d have to give up automobiles and just walk everywhere — or perhaps descend into s...