Political Theory

Progressivism is a ravenous lion, conservativism is a neutered housecat. Failure to understand this is an enormous tactical and moral mistake for advocates of liberty.

A British exit from the EU would help decentralize Europe overall, and thus help the cause of freedom and free trade.

Attacking the current political leadership and virtually every element of government policy, Rothbard explains why he still has confidence in the future of America.

This is the fruit of free labor. It is able to create more wealth for everyone than slave labor once provided for the masters.

In Ron Paul’s America, or Hans Hoppe’s private law society, voluntary “socialist” arrangements would be perfectly allowable and legal. But libertarian communities are never permitted in statist societies.

Most Americans today are now reflexively progressive, meaning they want government to do something, rather than reflexively libertarian.

The way that government collects taxes is awful. The process of spending it is even worse.

Free speech does not imply people are free to insult you in your living room. Similarly, all property rights are "limited" in many ways by the property rights of neighbors and other owners.

Democratic socialism in Britain in the late 1940s brought a wave of shortages with rations falling even below WWII standards.

Listen as Mark Thornton gives his views on the presidential candidates and the problems with their economic policies.