Political Theory

James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.

London has recently caved to EU and US pressure to tighten its grip on financial markets. Brexit offers a way out.

In a free society, you should never have to register your child or your gun.

Both Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Income Tax take away the hard-earned money of people presumed to be innocent.

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.