Political Theory

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is to be ineptly defended.

Presented at Mises University 2022.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.

In order to argue, you must own yourself.

Socialism does not build, it destroys.

Socialism arose as an international working-class movement, but the nationalist has met more success: "Proletarians of all countries, don't come to my country and take my job away from me!"

Tho Bishop is joined by Mises Research Fellow Marcel Gautreau for a wide-ranging conversation about challenges to the American-dominated neoliberal order.

Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."

The end of Roe may force many Americans to recognize that the United States is not one place. It is many places. The key is to reject uniform federal policy. 

Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.