Regulation
Government regulations typically restrict people’s behaviors and choices– causing economic damage, especially to society’s vulnerable who can least afford to comply. Locke works to deregulate and support innovation and growth.
End of Atlantic Coast Pipeline hurts Eastern North Carolina
Low-cost energy is an essential ingredient to economic vitality. Rodney Pitts, chairman of Southern Elevator and a John Locke Foundation board member sent the following to the Charlotte Observer as…
Gun ownership growing among African-Americans
*via https://lundestudio.com/ Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon documents an interesting trend in American gun ownership. African Americans have been a major driver of 2020’s record-setting growth in new…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online reports that the Cooper administration’s proposed unemployment rule could force parents to choose between returning to work and taking care of home-bound kids. Jordan Roberts explains why…
The Open Society and Its (New) Enemies, Part 2
Why would two professors want to retract a paper that had no apparent methodological, mathematical, or interpretative errors? The answer, as described in part one, is “cancel culture.” In a…
The Open Society and Its (New) Enemies, Part 1
Karl Popper wrote The Open Society and Its Enemies during the Second World War in an attempt to explain and refute the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands…
Winner of landmark gun-rights case considers return to court
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon explains why Dick Heller’s name might return to the national headlines. The man at the center of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Carolina Journal Online recaps the N.C. General Assembly’s recent regular legislative session. The Daily Journal explains how the new HBO “Perry Mason” series helps make a case against burdensome occupational…
Legislating “cancel culture” misses the point
In a City Journal article titled “Pushing Back on Cancel Culture,” law professors Robert Delahunty and John Yoo argue that Congress should extend civil rights protections to speech to “limit…
The Government as a Perpetuator of Inequality
America is currently in the midst of a national conversation about race relations and inequality. While many are calling on government to solve these problems, it is important to remember…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the end of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline deal and Gov. Roy Cooper’s pattern of executive overreach. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why…
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis of Carolina Journal Online review the week in N.C. politics. John Trump’s Daily Journal responds to legislative efforts to ease ABC license renewal requirements.
Targeting COVID-19 rules that force people to die alone
Helen Raleigh of the Federalist pans COVID-19 restrictions that have led to lonely deaths. Everyone who knew Elizabeth Valerie Reiter describes her as someone who was kind, thoughtful, and always…