Why Do More Conservative States Take More Federal Grants?

Once you control for everything else, conservative states don’t take more federal grant money than liberal states – in fact, they may even tend to take less.

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State Policy Ideology in 2 Dimensions

As many readers already know, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a new study I’ve coauthored with Texas State political scientist William Ruger, Freedom in the 50 States 2011: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom. It’s the second edition of a study first published in 2009. The new edition updates and [...]

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“Public Health” and the New Progressivism

Today’s “public health” paternalists bear a striking resemblance to the social-gospel Progressives of yesteryear.

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Libertarianism’s Limits: Political or Theoretical?

At AmCon, James Banks gives his take on the Christopher Beam piece in New York magazine on libertarianism. Like many other critics of the piece, Banks believes Beam focuses too much on the fringes of the movement. However, Banks still argues that libertarianism has inherent “limits”: [I]t is still difficult to imagine a robust libertarian [...]

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