by Tyler Williamson | May 24, 2021 | Blog
This week Governor Stitt and the Oklahoma Legislature decided to end participation in a handful of federal pandemic aid programs, namely the $300 per week Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC),...
by Mike Davis | May 3, 2021 | Blog
To recieve notifications when we post new content, click here. 1889 Institute doesn’t generally come down on the side of government “owing” money or material goods to anyone. We favor negative rights – those that say government shall not abridge a given freedom...
by Spencer Cadavero | Dec 9, 2020 | Blog
The Christian philosopher, C.S. Lewis, once said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” The moral...
by Byron Schlomach | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris often declared during the campaign that “We believe in science.” And judging by the tendency of the college-educated, especially among the sophisticates living on the coasts, to agree with Harris’s positions on everything from...
by Mike Davis | Nov 18, 2020 | Research
America’s Legal Tradition of Allowing Risk-Taking,Even in a Pandemic Author Mike Davis Abstract This paper demonstrates how many local governments’ restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 fail to fit into the long American legal tradition of allowing individuals...
