Political Theory

Łukasz and Jeff discuss Hoppe, private law, and the role of culture in libertarian theory.

Mark Thornton is interviewed by Phil Pepin on The Pursuit of Freedom radio show

This paper provides an outline of politics, and argues that elements of an a priori theory of politics can be found in the writings of Austrian school scholars, although they have not yet been grouped under a specific field.

The state was being even more sadistic than usual when it handed down an unwarranted life sentence to Ross Ulbricht. Many libertarians hail Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, as a hero of freedom. But did he really forward the cause of free markets?

Celebrate Star Wars Day: Here Are My Review/Previews of the Prequels. It's All About the Battle of Ideas!

Hoppe explains three of the most momentous events in the history of mankind: the Neolithic Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the origin and development of the State.

Natural rights are fundamentally different from goods and services.

Throughout most of history, “citizens belonged to the city, body and soul,” writes Larry Siedentop in his new book Inventing the Individual. Even today, the Western idea of the free individual remains largely confined to the West.

Natural rights are fundamentally different from goods and services. Judge Napolitano explains in his new book how the acquisition of a mere service — security — cannot be based on the destruction of rights, which cannot be traded away.

Gustave de Molinari learned of “the destructive apparatus of the civilized State” from the French Revolution, “naively undertaken to establish a regime of liberty and prosperity for the benefit of humanity, end[ing]…in an increase in the servitude and burdens.”