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Here we go again. The United States has been rattled to the core by an unspeakable act of evil perpetrated by a hater of humanity. A quiet, wealthy loner rented a hotel suite in Las Vegas, armed it with shooting platforms and automatic weapons, knocked out two of the windows, and shot at innocents 32 floors below. Fifty-nine people were murdered,

The issue of whether government in America can quarantine persons against their will, ostensibly for their own health and that of others with whom they may come in contact, requires a dual analysis—one of the powers of the federal government and the other of the powers of the states. For constitutional analysis purposes, since local and regional

JEFF DEIST: Judge Napolitano, it’s great to speak with you. Some people, even your fans, think you’ve been too hard on Trump on the issue of alleged collusion by his campaign surrounding the 2016 election. A lot of libertarians don’t think collusion or conspiracy ought to be crimes at all. JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Collusion is Rudy Giuliani’s

“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”   – President John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the US military to invade a then friendly country without the knowledge or consent of its government and assassinate a visiting foreign government official. The victim was the head of Iran’s military

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the Constitution of the United States. Except in this version, George Washington—who presided at the

[Adapted from the foreword to Conceived in Liberty, Volume 5: The New Republic: 1784–1791 . ] What aroused the fears of those who sought through the Constitution to establish a strong national government? In part, the nationalists were afraid of tax resistance. Rothbard details the key libertarian uprising in Massachusetts, Shays’ Rebellion, a