The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order
A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion — an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and
Political Theory
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William Graham Sumner: Critic of Progressive Liberalism
In America today, as throughout the West, most people fundamentally accept the “welfare state.” Republican Presidents live happily with
Internal Inconsistencies in Arguments for Government: Nozick, Rand, and Hospers
Those who deny that the provision of protection services could be supplied through either the market or some other nonmonopolistic device must ther
Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and Contradiction Garrisonian Abolitionists and Nonviolence
Historian Alice Felt Tyler once used the expression “Freedom’s Ferment” to characterize the antebellum period in American history
The Philosophy of Freedom
In this paper, Antony Flew discusses liberty and political freedom.
Volume 9, Number 1 (1989)
On Liberal and Democratic Nationhood
The consubstantiality of liberalism and democracy has become a modem religious dogma.
Secession Reconsidered
The idea of secession has been around ever since there have been governments.
Whither anarchy? Has Robert Nozick justified the state?
One can appreciate Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick on many levels.
Libertarians and the Authoritarian Personality
Like the United States, Australia has a libertarian political party.
“Let the People See” Reflections on Ethnoreligious Forces in American Politics
In a long editorial entitled “Let the People See,” which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1852, Horace Greeley, the great e
