But most importantly, it was the connection between the unpopular war and the economic dislocation it caused that was the aberration here.

The great majority of juror oaths comport with the trial by jury guaranteed by the Constitution, allowing jurors to check oppression by acquitting in the name of justice.

Statism was a mistake. We need governments for a few good purposes, such as protecting us from Russian nuclear extortion. But in a world of greatly varied human gifts and irremediable conditions, the statists’ promises of equality of outcome or of opportunity are not even approximately feasible.