Political Theory

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

Liberalism has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments.

The Lou Church Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Lou Church Foundation.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture sponsored by Helio Beltrão.

The modern drive to centralize European government and make a European superstate threatens to destroy what made Europe great in the first place.

Guido Hülsmann and Jeff Deist discuss the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.

Paul Gottfried discusses his recent book, Fascism: The Career of a Concept.

Paul Cleveland discusses his recent book, The Great Utopian Delusion.

As with East Germany, a liberalized Cuba would still require decades to catch up to its affluent neighbors, economically. North Korea is an even more extreme case. All these cases illustrate that political changes cannot substitute for the hard work of building wealth.

Subsidies, government quotas, and regulations of workers won't make us richer or better off. Only private owners and entrepreneurs can determine the best way to use labor (and capital).