Political Theory

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

Historian Alice Felt Tyler once used the expression “Freedom’s Ferment” to characterize the antebellum period in American history

In this paper, Antony Flew discusses liberty and political freedom.

Volume 9, Number 1 (1989)

The consubstantiality of liberalism and democracy has become a modem religious dogma.