Twenty-One Debunked

Few laws are as uniquely sacred in the USA today as the 21 drinking age laws.  They are essentially a "third rail" of politics, ev...

One very important philosophical principle is that of Chesterton's Fence, by author G.K. Chesterton.   Per Wikipedia : "Chesterton...

In our previous post, we discussed the idea of possibly having a split (graduated) drinking age for the first few years of lowering the drin...

Twenty-One Debunked has long called for the drinking age to be lowered to 18, completely, and yesterday is not soon enough.  And that hasn...

Blast from the past:  Rediscovering two studies from the 1990s by Professor Donald S. Kenkel: PROHIBITION VERSUS TAXATION: RECONSIDERING THE...

We have noted before how alcohol tax (and thus price) hikes have been proven time and again to save lives, whether from traffic deaths, oth...

The latest fearmongering "Reefer Madness" study is making the rounds now.  This one insinuates (with the requisite hedging of lan...

Looks like good old Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and one of America's Founding Fathers, had  uncannily pre...

Lately, there has been some talk of the outgoing Biden administration possibly doing an eleventh-hour Hail Mary, and officially propose a h...

It's 2025 now, and things look pretty bleak for youth rights in general.  Not only is the 21 drinking age (and smoking age and toking ag...