Law and Liberty: A Comparison of Hayek and Bastiat
This paper compares the work of two pioneers in the field of law and liberty: F. A. Hayek and his predecessor, Frédéric Bastiat.
Political Theory
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Concept of “Nature” in Liberal Political Thought
The connection between a theory of human nature and normative political theory is a puzzling one.
Concepts of the Role of Intellectuals In Social Change Toward Laissez Faire
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?
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
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.
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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.
