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National Emergencies: Necessary Evils or Creeping Authoritarianism?
Emergency declarations often outlive their usefulness while becoming an excuse for the government to amass more power.
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Jeryl Bier
Businesses Need Free Speech Too
Political Censorship Comes in Many Guises, Beats Up on Energy Producers
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Fergus Hodgson
To Defeat Polarization, We Need A Revival of Civic Virtue
Political decentralization could be the key to addressing today's identity-driven polarization.
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Sukhayl Niyazov
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Businesses Need Free Speech Too
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Hyperbolic Discourse Is Literally Destroying Democracy
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China's Insidious Illiberal Influence
 • Jeryl Bier
The Changing Prerogatives of Civil Liberties and Free Speech Organizations
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Political Violence Is A Threat to Democracy — Unless It's The Good Kind
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Elon Musk's Free Speech Absolutism Ends at China's Borders
Musk may be a hypocrite when it comes to his professed reverence for freedom and his management of Twitter, but his deference to the Chinese government…
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Jeryl Bier
Political Violence Is A Threat to Democracy — Unless It's The Good Kind
The media shouldn't pick and choose which types of violence to be outraged about, much less encourage it.
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Jeryl Bier
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The BYU Racial Slur Incident Shows How the Media Fans the Culture War Flames
The press is failing at its duty to properly vet serious accusations. But why?
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Jeryl Bier
Why An Economics-Focused Research Center Is Taking on Illiberalism
A Q&A on the Mercatus Center’s Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange with Program Director Ben Klutsey.
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Jeryl Bier
The Changing Prerogatives of Civil Liberties and Free Speech Organizations
Organizations that should be at the forefront in defending free expression and open discourse are ceding ground to illiberalism or even actively…
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Jeryl Bier
China's Insidious Illiberal Influence
The Chinese Communist Party is intent on controlling the narrative worldwide, not just within China. Some Western businesses and institutions are aiding…
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Jeryl Bier
Hyperbolic Discourse Is Literally Destroying Democracy
Your opponents’ policy preferences aren’t going to lead us to certain doom, and other ways hyperbole degrades public discourse.
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Jeryl Bier
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