Political Theory

Classical Liberalism, especially of the Austrian inclination, and Libertarianism are by now recognized as the most influential research traditions

The literature of American legal history is primarily a history of federal and state governments, creating the false impression that these governme

In legal philosophy there is perhaps no older, nor deeper, conflict than that which exists between legal positivists and natural law advocates.

When Professor Georges Gurvitch, the highly esteemed occupant of the chair of philosophy at the University of Strasbourg before World War II and th

This paper compares the work of two pioneers in the field of law and liberty: F. A. Hayek and his predecessor, Frédéric Bastiat.

The connection between a theory of human nature and normative political theory is a puzzling one.

Having adopted a profoundly radical creed at odds with the ruling dogmas of their day, what did Lao-tzu, La Boétie, Quesnay, Turgot, and James Mill offer as a strategy for social change in the direction of liberty?

A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion — an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and

In America today, as throughout the West, most people fundamentally accept the “welfare state.” Republican Presidents live happily with

Those who deny that the provision of protection services could be supplied through either the market or some other nonmonopolistic device must ther