On April 5, 2023 Robert Dotson received a knock on the door late at night. Unsure who it was, he answered the door while holding a pistol. The unexpected visitor turned out to be the police, who had not identified themselves, and who instead responded by fatally shooting Robert twelve times. They also attempted to…

In his 1850 book The Law, Frédéric Bastiat lays out what he believes should be the function of the State: the defense of our natural rights, and nothing more. Bastiat spoke fondly of the United States, which he believed best conformed to this standard at the time, but wrote that even they violated liberty in…