A frequent lament of civil libertarians is the lack of familiarity with the idea of liberty in the western intellectual tradition. Ask people about that history, and you begin to get an almost surreal feeling that "history" is what has happened over the past ten…
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Take This Quiz
This is a pop quiz. What organization brought the following lawsuits?
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Threatening Mom and Apple Pie
Watching the Indiana General Assembly is always an interesting exercise. Some of our elected representatives are addressing issues that will clearly have enormous implications for the future health of the state: education, property tax reform, problems with the juvenile justice system. Others are using their positions to…
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Flouting the Constitution
Recently, the Hendricks County Commissioners voted to hang the Ten Commandments in the Rotunda of the County Government Building.
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Ends and Means
My mother used to tell me that there is a right way and a wrong way to do things. It was her way of expressing the principle–much honored in the breach, I have since noticed–that the ends do not justify the means.
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