Back in June, the Hoover Institution hosted the Land, Labor, And The Rule Of Law Conference in Washington DC. The meeting examined five research papers that provide a historical and modern analysis of rule of law issues that arise in labor and land regulation and markets. This talk is about how and why the environmentalist…
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Trump Administration has lifted an Obama-era ban on African elephant body parts obtained during spotting hunts on the continent. The Administration sacked the idea back in November during a controversy that erupted when it was revealed the President would, most likely, lift the prohibition. Oddly enough, a new book…
Despite assurances by town officials that construction was being done in accordance with the law, environmentalists have vowed to halt construction of and seek demolition of six villas to be constructed near sea caves in the town of Peyia, Corsica. According to Cyprus Mail, the controversy surrounds the villas location that environmentalists claim is near…
Tucker Carlson interviewed Edward Poitevent II on his Fox News program tonight. The Poitevent family is fighting federal regulators who threatened to impose millions of dollars of fines on them during 2013 for developing a plot of land the family owns. The bureaucrats claim doing so threaten the habitat of the dusky gopher frog which…
Journalist John Stossel reveals how endangered species laws lead to perverse incentives for governments to restrict private property use and what property owners do to continue to be able to use their land. Stossel interviews an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity who is one of many environmentalist groups that sue government agencies to…
A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.
While animal rights is still chic among Hollywood celebrities and certain academic circles, to Tibor Machan in his book Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature’s Favorite the idea that animals as on par with and deserving the same rights as humans as ridiculous. Only beings capable of deliberation and choice (i.e. reason) deserve rights,…
