Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution to benefit the least well-off. Robert Nozick opposed this view, arguing for ...

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or ...

Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

Free speech took center stage as advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world convened recently at Vanderbilty University in Nashville.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared wary of barring lawsuits against American companies over alleged human rights abuses abroad but signaled they could toss out a case accusing Cargill Inc ...

The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts allowed on Monday lawsuits against Harvard over mishandling of human remains by a former morgue manager to proceed to discovery.

The upshot was frightening. Paradoxically individual freedom could end up being more restricted under mass democracy than under the despotic sovereigns of yore. Mill famously refers to this as ...

Next week, if the Supreme Court decides to reach the merits in the U.S. v. Ellingburg case, it should recognize that restitution to crime victims serves compensatory rather than penal purposes.