Political Theory

Iceland's populist left-anarchist/libertarian/hacker Pirate party just shook up the corrupt political establishment in Iceland.

Monopolies and cartels are creations of government, not markets.

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Free lunches are not really free, even to those who vote for them. There are other reasons to vote against getting "free stuff," too.

The OECD has updated it's income measures, and we find that many European welfare states still rank among the lowest-income US states.

Faith in the voting process has weakened because voters are increasingly fearful of what an electoral loss might bring.

Unilateral free trade is not some utopian libertarian ideal. It is a real-world policy that has been used and which reaps economic rewards.

The decline in industrial production is in many ways the product of government interventionism.

Deirdre McCloskey contends that ideas — not capital accumulation or material resources — have caused widespread economic development.

Populism is a strategy that may be used by any ideological group whose political agenda differs radically from that of the ruling class.