BREAKING: FIRE is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, challenging the laws he is using to target lawfully present noncitizens for speech protected by the Constitution. No administration should be able to deport lawfully present noncitizens for their opinions.

Mass deportation isn’t just about immigration policy; it’s about unchecked power.

If you’ve ever wondered whether Red No. 3 is actually dangerous, and how overregulating risk can backfire, watch this excellent video from my favorites at Kite & Key Media.

I have a new paper with Virgil Henry Storr and Nona Martin Storr in Disasters called “Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery.” It’s open access, and you can read the full paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/di…

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Hey, I wrote a book. Did The Science Wars Take Place? Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting influences on the far-right. Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/prod…

Does modern immigration enforcement undermine the rule of law? On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Nathan P. Goodman and Jacob T. Levy explore how immigration policy replaces general, predictable rules with fear-based governance. loom.ly/tSKCUtk

All-timer podcast with Aaron Ross Powell and Samantha Hancox-Li, a libertarian and a progressive who've both become more nuanced with time. Aaron's diagnosis of (and remedy for) fusionism is necessary listening for libertarians and non-libertarians alike. youtube.com/watch?v=7cQvkR…

New paper: Laws expanding US nurse practitioners' scope-of-practice decrease the number of avoidable hospitalizations (a good thing) for diabetes and other chronic conditions. Another no-brainer policy. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🔍 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱 ≠ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 Trees are complex. Toasters are complicated. In both nature and society, complexity isn’t a nuisance or a problem to be fixed. It’s the 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 condition of adaptive systems—from forests to economies. 🎋🌴🌲 Let’s stop trying

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On really existing anarchism. Public Choice and/or Polycentric Philosophy of Science? (Neoliberalism is dead; Long live Neoliberalism!, pt 2.) Shout out to open.substack.com/pub/digression…

Very interesting discussion of my paper on the polycentric organization of science by Digressionsnimpress., including various weaknesses of the argument. Wish I had such careful readers for everything! digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-really-ex…

In his upcoming book, Jordan Lofthouse demonstrates how the field of economics can explain the rise of environmental problems and offers a framework to evaluate the vast array of potential solutions. 🌱 Now available for pre-order! loom.ly/hInaYRY

I recently published a paper with Jim Ronyak in the Journal of Private Enterprise titled "Internet Access and Native American Economic Development." Read the full article here: journal.apee.org/2025_Journal_o…

I’m happy to share that our article “The allocation of entrepreneurial talent: revisiting the role of formal and informal institutions” is now out in Small Business Economics. 1/5

What kind of justice did Hume endorse, and why was it so claustrophobically narrow? Never underestimate Hume! Alex and I show that Hume builds a compelling, modern theory of justice from a few principles. Available now in Journal of Moral Philosophy (preprint on PhilPapers).

"Being anti-establishment should never be enough to bring intellectual joy to a true liberal." Peter Boettke mercatus.org/hayekprogram/r…

My latest at Econlib where I draw on a recent post by co-blogger Pierre Lemieux and recent research in the @JoIEBlog to discuss potential tradeoffs in writing a constitution. econlib.org/constitutional…

How do periods of peace give rise to the conditions for war? Nathan P. Goodman, Abby Hall, and Karla Segovia leverage insights from Austrian economics and the work of Kenneth Boulding to analyze El Salvador's transition from peace to civil war. loom.ly/PyBS7_M