Joshua Polk

Joshua Polk is a civil rights attorney who defends Americans’ property rights and economic liberty in court. He earned his J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law where he served as President of the Law and Economics Society and Editor-in-Chief of the Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review. He has published numerous articles discussing the damage done by certificate-of-need laws, zoning restrictions, licensing statutes, and abusive tax foreclosures.

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Vietnam Should Have Been the End of US Foreign Intervention. It Wasn’t, and the World Is Worse Off

04/20/2022 Mises Wire Joshua Polk

In 1975, after nearly a decade of outright conflict, the United States government abandoned its doomed escapade in Vietnam. It left a devastated country and over a million corpses in its wake. The...

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