Political Theory

Many modern states are little more than groupings of conquered nations. Breaking them up into smaller pieces is all for the best, and this would also ultimately lead to more free trade among nations since smaller states find it more difficult to sow the illusion of economic self-sufficiency.

Political consultants and mainstream reporters are fixated on electoral politics, as if no other form of societal change were conceivable, writes L

Menger, Walras and Jevons are credited with creating the marginal revolution in economics.

Elizabeth Warren outlines 11 Commandments of Progressivism and each requires coercion and politics to succeed, writes William Anderson.

When it comes to your local police, there is no shopping around, there is no customer service, and there is no choice, writes Jeff Deist.

Jeff Deist and Marc J. Victor discuss what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri, and our disappearing legal rights.

Walter Block is at his finest when he subjects the most loathsome jobs and nastiest behaviors to logical libertarian scrutiny. Block’s Defending the Undefendable has needled and irritated an entire generation of readers 

Starting in 1974, the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), based at that time in Menlo Park, California, began an ambitious plan to resurrect the then near to dead Austrian school of thought in economics.