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1. Freedom under attack in India

   Appeared in the Policy Times, January 30, 2020 To quell a nationwide backlash against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) that India’s parliament passed last month, Indian authorities denied people the right to protest and raise their voices. In doing ...

2. ‘Mini Schengen’—moving toward freedom and markets

   French President Emmanuel Macron’s spearheading opposition to block European Union accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia during the European Council’s recent fall meeting is not only dangerously and severely undermining the ...

3. The tide of global freedom is receding—but there’s hope

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, January 25, 2019 Is the world losing its taste for freedom as we move further into 2019? Two recent reports confirm the perception that freedom is under attack globally. The Human Freedom Index, a joint project of ...

4. The Human Freedom Index 2016

   The index published here presents a broad measure of human freedom, understood as the absence of coercive constraint. It uses 79 distinct indicators of personal and economic freedom in the following areas: Rule of Law Security and Safety Movement Religion ...

5. The Human Freedom Index 2015

   The Human Freedom Index presents a broad measure of human freedom around the world through the use of 76 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms to rank 152 countries around the world. It is the most comprehensive freedom index so far created ...

6. Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

   Appeared in The Independent Review, Summer 2014 Without an objective measure of freedom, it is impossible to determine whether an action leads to increases or decreases in freedom, whether it lends stability to freedom or causes instability, or whether ...

7. Measuring Freedom around the World

   Appeared in American Magazine Online Existing attempts to measure economic freedom have long been imperfect — blurring various definitions of freedom, using subjective rather than objective measures, and either failing to account for economic freedom or ...