Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Freedom and law -- Freedom and rights -- The nature and purpose of government: a Lockean view -- Liberal democracy -- Constitutional considerations -- Bibliography -- About the author

The twin pillars of the nation created by America's Founders were strict limits on the power of central government and strict protections of individual rights. Now, at the close of the twentieth century, that state is gone - and Charles Murray wants to bring it back. In What It Means to Be a...

We study paternalistic preferences in two large-scale experiments with participants from the general population in the United States. Spectators decide whether to intervene to prevent a stakeholder, who is mistaken about the choice set, from making a choice that is not aligned with the...