Political Theory

 Nicholas Wolterstorff assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful.

What is one to make of President Obama’s celebration of the government’s role in the personal pursuits of citizens and his diminishment of the causal connection between the productivity of individuals and the success of their pursuits?

Does our attitude toward elections prove that we are politically ignorant, shiftless, irresponsible, and get no better government than we deserve?

Office-seeking is a dead-end road. Principled promotion of ideological change is the way forward.

The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to "the Wilsonian Revolution in government."

Jason Brennan, an outstanding libertarian political philosopher who teaches at Georgetown University, has written Libertarianism as an introductory guide, and much of the material in it will be familiar to readers of

Most contemporary political philosophers, unfortunately, are not libertarians. Nicholas Wolterstorff, best known as a founder of "reformed epistemology" but a philosopher of extraordinary range, is no libertarian either — far from it.

Robert Skidelsky is best known for his three-volume biography of Lord Keynes, and his son Edward is a philosopher who has written an excellent book on Ernst Cassirer.

Libertarian Anarchy would have delighted Murray Rothbard. In this book, a distinguished Irish philosopher defends forcefully and eloquently Rothbardian anarchism.

Suppose one says that it is wrong to initiate force against people. What does it mean to say that this claim is true?