Political Theory

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."

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.

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.

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

How can one combine professional life with the advancement of liberty? The usual answer — go into government — is wrongheaded.

To "believe in" the president, one would have to believe that the source of America's greatness is the welfare state he enthusiastically defends and promotes.

"Buy American" is invoked to justify one group of citizens beggaring another.