A Hundred Sail

A Hundred Sail

By: Dylan Allman The first article aboard Bartholomew Roberts’s ship gave every man a vote in affairs of moment, and the Crown hanged men for sailing under it. Captain Charles Johnson set the articles down in 1724 from the testimony of men who had sailed under...
Why It’s Important to Vote Libertarian

Why It’s Important to Vote Libertarian

Measured the way an economist would, the expected value of one ballot in a statewide race sits somewhere between negligible and comic. The odds that yours is the one that breaks a tie are worse than most of the lottery tickets sold at the gas station you pass on the...
The Tax You Never Voted For

The Tax You Never Voted For

The next time you sign a mortgage, finance a car, or open a credit-card statement and wonder why the number keeps creeping upward, here is your answer: you are paying a tax that no one in Washington had the nerve to call a tax. Here is how the bill reaches you:...