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I arrived at Ohio State in the early 1980s the way a lot of freshmen do, unsure of exactly how this new undergraduate adventure would take shape. My father had graduated from the same university in 1958 with a degree in political science, so, without giving it much thought of my own, I declared that same degree too.

Well, that didn’t last long.

Biology was my love...


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Editor's Note: Originally published by our partner, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), in The Freeman in March 1998, this essay remains one of the clearest examinations of how government homeschooling programs can gradually erode educational independence. Although some figures and references reflect the time of publicat...


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In its recent Chatrie v. United States decision, the Supreme Court held that obtaining a person’s Google location history through a geofence warrant falls within the Fourth Amendment’s protections. The 6-3 decision chips away at the third-party doctri...


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In my Advocates essay “Self-Command is the Price of Freedom,” I argued that freedom depends on small acts of self-limitation that no law can efficiently command.

Adam Smith’s teaching is not merely that liberty requires restraint. It is t...


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When the state fire marshal called in the early days of running my microschool, I wasn’t sure what to think. We had worked closely with our local fire department and town government. Our learning center had been inspected, approved, and operating successfully for years. I had no reason to think that there was another layer of oversight that we had not navigated yet. I wondere...


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