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He will be sorely missed, but his legacy of liberty will live on.

David defined libertarianism for my generation, and for generations to come.

In a way, David has embodied what Cato strives to be: a clear, clean, and precise presentation of libertarian/​classical liberal thought.

By Oleksii Isakov. Ukrainian Dreams, a special film event taking place for the first time in Berlin, aims to decolonise and remap Ukrainian cinema by emphasizing its position within the global cultural context and by bringing the works of Ukrainian directors out of the shadow of the mostly hegemonic Soviet and Russian past. Sovist' (1968), directed by Volodymyr Denysenko (1930-1984), is one of the films that certainly deserve a closer look.

Following his inauguration on December 10, Argentina's President Javier Milei has pursued his governmental goal to reduce the size and expenses of the state and to deregulate productive activities by issuing Executive Order (DNU) 70/23, titled "Bases for the Reconstruction of the Argentine Republic." This executive order is unprecedented in Argentina's history for its ambitious scope, addressing a wide range of issues in a single directive. This blogpost maps some constitutional questions that arise with Milei's choice of implementing his governmental agenda via Executive Order, including their status in Argentina's constitutional system and available mechanisms for congressional and judicial control.

BY MIKE MAGEE If there is a silver lining to the Trump assault on decency and civility, it is our majority response to this "stress test" of our Democracy, and the sturdinessContinue reading...

The stakes are high for this weekend's presidential election.

This is true despite claims to the contrary by some on both the left and right.

Harry Wallop has a lovely piece about bananas. The point we'd lift from it being: Keeping track of all the bananas comes down to barcodes on the outside of the boxes and a warehouse that operates, Hopkins says, with "relentless focus". He deciphers the code on one box, which is destined for Iceland supermarket and has come from Colombia. "I can see that it was harvested on March 27 at 10am," he says. "We have 3D warehouses, so I can tell which container, which ship it came in, who drove the forklift truck and which supermarket it will end up at."This is, of course, planning to the nth degree. Bananas crop 52 weeks a year, demand varies little. The entire system faces little variance in either supply or demand and the process is really just about the efficiency with which the transport can be arranged. Profit margins are tiny - 1 to 2% of turnover sorts of levels.This is exactly what a planned economy should be good at - planned economic activity. That is the justification for the entire idea, that planning is more efficient than the chaos of mere markets. But to offer a second PJ O'Rourke quote: "For all the meddling the Communist bloc countries have done in banana republics, they still never seem to be able to get their hands on any actual bananas."Which gives us our lesson for the day. Planned economies aren't even any good at planning. At which point the Hell with them really, there's no other rational response, is there?

Tommaso Virgili is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Migration, Integration, Transnationalization Department of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Research Associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels. At the WZB, he works on Islamism and liberal Islam in connection with individual rights, with a focus on Europe and the MENA region. Tommaso holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law and a Master's degree in Law from Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and a Master of Arts in Middle East and Islamic Studies with Arabic from the American University of Paris and Cairo.

A review of Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property & Pollution at Law & Liberty.

I am the Executive Director of the Scalia Law School's Law & Liberty Center. Our most significant current project at the Center is "Voices for Liberty," which our website describes as follows: "While some view freedom of speech as detrimental to minority groups, others champion it as a necessary condition for protecting underrepresented voices. The Liberty…

Request for Paper Proposals Snapshot: Voices for Liberty, an initiative of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School, seeks to examine the ways in which free speech propels civil and social progress. Authors are invited to submit proposals for original articles that will ultimately appear in academic journals and explore the…

Israel's demolition of Gaza will haunt Europe's conscience for generations to come and imperil the claims of the democratic world.

From JTH Tax LLC d/b/a Liberty Tax v. AMC Networks, Inc., decided today by Judge Paul Gardephe (S.D.N.Y.), rejects plaintiff's claim of trademark infringement in AMC's Better Call Saul: [Season 6,] Episode 2 depicts a fictional tax preparation business called "Sweet Liberty Tax Services," which is operated by "convicted felon, Craig Kettleman, and his wife,…