Political Theory

Libertarianism has been widely misunderstood, and the present essay under review is no exception.

In the 1640s, an unknown English printer by the name of Richard Overton suddenly surfaced, seemingly out of nowhere, and catapulted himself into na

Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the S

Surveys of libertarian-leaning individuals in America show that the intellectual champions they venerate the most are Thomas Jefferson and Ayn Rand

In this article, J.C. Lester reviews Edward Feser’s On Nozick.

Volume 19, Number 3 (2005)

The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to

Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (min

The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree.

In this article, Hunt Tooley reviews A. James Gregor’s The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century.

Pioneering sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a prolific and astute historian of the early American republic. His work is informed by both his classical liberalism and his understanding of economics. He authored eight major works including major biographies and thematic studies concentrating on the vital subjects of currency, banking, business cycles, foreign trade, protectionism, and democratic politics. This article discusses Classical Liberalism and Sumner's academic philosophy.