This issue explores the economic and cultural dynamics shaping urban decline, the dangers of overregulation, and the historical patterns of confiscation and taxation stretching back to ancient Rome. Contributors critique modern welfare-state theology, expose bureaucratic irrationality, and analyze how union-government alliances harm economic freedom. Essays also examine the meaning of justice, the hidden costs of sexual-harassment policy, the career of commercial poet Berton Braley, and the enduring significance of Locke’s defense of rights.
