Cycles of Debt
Debtor’s Prison Revival, Ferguson Edition

In cities and towns across America, debtor’s prisons in all but name are locking the less fortunate into cycles of poverty and dysfunction.

Trust in the 21st Century
The Anti-Statist Alliance That Wasn’t

A burgeoning alliance between social conservatives and civil libertarians to oppose the nanny state might help end some particular abuses, but in the end the two camps want very different things. Their different goals represent two very different understandings of what human beings are and how they should live.

Pop Culture Politics
“Remember Who the Real Enemy Is”

There’s a popular feeling in the air that America has become decadent. Contrasting Harry Potter to the Hunger Games shows what a difference a decade can make.

Obamacare’s Defensive Playbook

A New Era in U.S. Health Care: Critical Next Steps Under the Affordable Care Act by Stephen Davidson (Stanford University Press, 2013), 128 pp., $12.99It’s a bad time to be a supporter of the Affordable Care Act. Public support for the law remains low, and seems to be getting lower. Moderate and conservative Democrats who backed […]

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