The federal government’s sway over the economy—its ability to direct the economic decisions of private citizens and the states—can be quantified. This paper introduces the “Soft Tyranny Index” to measure government’s interventionary power.
Behaving Badly: Texas Has a Better Way to Deal With Campus Protests
On Tuesday, the University of Texas announced that law enforcement had seized weapons from pro-Hamas protesters—including, according to reports, “guns, buckets of large rocks, bricks, steel-enforced wood planks, mallets, and chains.” Social media was replete with images of buckets filled with throwable chucks of concrete, staged in key areas where protesters expected resistance. But the weapons at...