Political Theory

This week, supporters of religious freedom cheered the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case.

Shinzo Abe’s so-called “three arrows” of monetary stimulus, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform, have crippled the Japanese economy, writes Andy

In a free-market economy, firms threatened with competition often respond by searching for ways to increase efficiencies, attempting to lower costs

It is now clear that the Fed and the European Central Bank are hard-wired to inflate the money supply while encouraging banks to make excessively r

Many Christians call for legislation to regulate, control, and ban activities that they deem as social vices, writes Bryan Cheang.

Socialism can only be maintained when one group imposes its will by force on all other groups, writes D.W. MacKenzie.

Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed, writes Walter Block.

The vastly greater productivity of a relatively-free populace makes for greater per capita tax revenue, writes Dan Sanchez.

Defenders of government coercion often claim that residence within a state’s boundaries imply consent to be taxed and regulated by the state in question. While one can expect to be robbed by the state regardless of where one lives, this is not the same as consenting to be robbed.