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Smart Cities Will Kill Freedom

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November 22, 2025

Smart Cities Will Kill Freedom
Future of Freedom Research Fellow Matthew Crawford uses the story of a skilled stunt motorcycle rider to show why planning is the enemy of play.

LA’s declining homelessness numbers: real or illusory?
Senior Fellow Lawrence McQuillan asks: Should LA officials really be crowing about their accomplishments?

Aristotle on a Balanced Budget Amendment
Senior Fellow Richard Vedder argues constitutional strictures are needed to moderate spasms of collective irresponsibility.

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The Supreme Court Asks Questions About Tariffs
Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness discusses his earlier (and now vindicated) predictions about the Supreme Court tariff case.

MORE MEDIA ATTENTION

Breitbart

Journalist Bradley Jaye quotes Senior Fellow Judy Shelton on the need for America’s gold holdings to be audited and verified. Read more »

The Unseen and The Unsaid Substack

Research Associate Caleb Petitt breaks down America’s trade with China. Read more »

The American Spectator

Policy Fellow K. Lloyd Billingsley writes that as the new NIH playbook proceeds, the struggle of the people against white coat supremacy is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Read more »

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Beyond Homeless

Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes, Transformative Solutions

Edited by Mary L. G. Theroux, Lawrence J. McQuillan, and Adam B. Summers
“With an impressive array of scholars and data, Beyond Homeless should be essential reading for those curious about how to change course on homelessness.”

—Judge Glock, Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the

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