Veronique de Rugy @veroderugy
Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University bit.ly/5s9LvP Arlington, VA Joined February 2009-
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Fabulous from @billybinion Assata Shakur stood with the oppressors reason.com/2025/09/29/ass…
First Tylenol, now this (😏): "Howard Lutnick Suggests Condensed Milk Is Made of Metal: The Commerce Department has a screwball method to protect businesses hit by steel and aluminum tariffs" via @EBGresser wsj.com/opinion/howard…
Interesting piece: The food aid situation in Gaza isn’t what I expected wapo.st/4nOaFMs
"You cannot run a modern industrial society on tribal loyalties and personal judgments that work well for a small band of foragers. For that, you need broad and impartial principles that equally apply to everyone, and are equally enforced by everyone, even against their own."…
"No, Mr. President, Tariff Challengers Don’t 'Hate Our Country'" via @CatoInstitute Good @DeHavenTad rundown of the American small businesses fighting Trump's tariffs - and for their owners/workers' livelihoods - at the Supreme Court
Opinion | The Censorship You Practice Today Will Be Used Against You Tomorrow - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opi…
There are still some (not many!) seats left for the live event. So if you’re considering coming, now’s your chance!
There are still some (not many!) seats left for the live event. So if you’re considering coming, now’s your chance!
This pretty much sums up what went wrong with Biden era industrial policy:
I continue to think it's insane that the Hewlett Foundation has decided that financing a left-right pincer attack on liberalism is the smart way to address the current crisis gripping western democracies.
The Erika Kirk example washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
We already know your "vision." It involves mass murder, dictatorship, and poverty for all except the Marxist leadership.
We already know your "vision." It involves mass murder, dictatorship, and poverty for all except the Marxist leadership.
I'd like to say something to my fellow conservatives. It's something that I hope will speak to old-school liberals as well. We must be people of principle--unwaveringly so. We must be so most fundamentally because it is right. It is morally required. And we are not relieved of…
Hey Reps and Dems, progressives and libertarians, conservatives and liberals: The @FCC has never been your friend. In fact, from FM radio to cable, it stymied innovation for decades. Former chief economist Thomas W. Hazlett explained it all...in 2017. substack.com/home/post/p-17…
“It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel,” Sen. Ted Cruz says, “but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.” wsj.com/opinion/ted-cr… via @WSJopinion
"Perón didn’t just set broad economic policy—he personally decided which companies succeeded or failed, which sectors received government support, who got access to foreign currency, and more"
"Perón didn’t just set broad economic policy—he personally decided which companies succeeded or failed, which sectors received government support, who got access to foreign currency, and more" https://t.co/kh2ExNE066
First there’s this piece by David French, who devoted much of his legal career to defending the First Amendment rights of conservative writers and scholars nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opi…
Political Cowardice: Covid Obamacare Credit Edition nationalreview.com/corner/politic…
Waymo is so safe that if every car was driven like a Waymo, about 9% of America's life expectancy gap would disappear. 9 percent Americans die in car accidents *that often*.
Waymo is so safe that if every car was driven like a Waymo, about 9% of America's life expectancy gap would disappear. 9 percent Americans die in car accidents *that often*. https://t.co/GaxmnBuyQZ
FIRE is what the ACLU once was: a group steadfastly devoted to free speech and opposing state censorship, regardless of where it comes from or who it targets. They made their name defending conservative students from campus censorship, but apply the principles universally:
FIRE is what the ACLU once was: a group steadfastly devoted to free speech and opposing state censorship, regardless of where it comes from or who it targets. They made their name defending conservative students from campus censorship, but apply the principles universally:
Libertarians have always said the FCC is an illegitimate institution not befitting a free society. FCC chairman Brendan Carr proves us right.
Libertarians have always said the FCC is an illegitimate institution not befitting a free society. FCC chairman Brendan Carr proves us right.

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