Political Theory

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

This is the main fallacy of term limits: it presumes the problem is the people in government, and not the government itself.

When government creates special demographic categories for groups of people, the effects on public policy can be far reaching.

The federal government is using the threat of foreign hackers as an excuse to further nationalize elections in the United States.

Watch or listen to Lew Rockwell and Tom Woods deconstruct this year's presidential election. Recorded at the Mises Circle in Boston.

Watch or listen to Edward Stringham's talk at the Mises Circle in Boston.

Watch or listen to Tom Woods's talk from the Mises Circle in Boston.

High-frequency trading is not the nefarious scheme policymakers would have you believe it is. It serves a real purpose in the marketplace.

The critique of "trickle-down" economics relies on a mistaken zero-sum view that more income for some must reduce incomes to others.

Henry Hazlitt brings to his only novel, Time Will Run Back, the same clarity and ease for the reader he brought to Economics in One Lesson.