Jon Guze

It’s sad, and all too true, but it’s not something you often hear from a left-wing ideologue like Matt Taibbi. Nevertheless, that’s the title of a recent blog post by the life-long Democrat. The subtitle is, “The Blue Party’s Trump-era Embrace of Authoritarianism Isn’t Just Wrong, it’s a Fatal…

Karol Sikora is Dean and Professor of Medicine at Buckingham Medical School in the UK. He recently posted this encouraging assessment on Twitter:   Fingers crossed!…

For those who are interested, UNC Professor Jonathan Holbrook provides a thorough analysis at the School of Government’s Criminal Law blog. Here are some highlights: Protests and public demonstrations are permitted, of course, but if a participant engages in other criminal conduct during the course of the event (e.g., assault,…

In “Statewide lockdowns unnecessarily divide, divert us from task at hand,” I suggested that “even in the absence of statewide lockdown orders, voluntary social distancing would have had more or less the same effects on both the spread of COVID-19 and on the economy,” and I provided evidence compiled…

Lyman Stone attempts to answer that question in a new paper published by the American Enterprize Institute. The title is “Promise and peril: The history of American religiosity and its recent decline,” and the key findings are: American religiosity is in rapid decline according to numerous measures. However, Americans…

That’s the provocative question raised by James R. Rogers in a recent peice at the Law & Liberty blog: When controlling for the differences in population across states, the number of deaths from coronavirus is over three times higher in states with Democratic governors than in states…

For many years, eminent domain reform has been an important part of the John Locke Foundation’s policy agenda, and it will continue to be an important policy goal going forward. However, while our previous recommendations have focused on the need to ensure that real property can only be taken for truly public use…

Over the course of recent weeks, Americans have been shocked by the unseemly and divisive spectacle of police officers threatening to arrest people, and in some cases actually arresting people, for engaging in a peaceful protests, for attending religious services, even for playing with their kids in deserted parks. While…