Political Theory

The heroic fighter for liberty <em>out</em> of power is often tempted, once he has the reins of command, to rationalize that <i>now</i> "order" must be imposed &mdash; by him.

Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century repays careful study by anyone interested in political philosophy or American history.

The buyers do not pay for the toil and trouble the worker took nor for the length of time he spent in working. They pay for the products.

A policy-making think tank that works in a dozen or more fields is a lost cause from day one.

To write about bleeding-heart libertarianism is no easy task. Self-professed bleeding-heart libertarians, who include well-known political philosophers, now run their own website, and the movement has aroused among libertarians

The contributors to Donald Livingston's valuable collection of essays defend two main contentions. Each of these contentions may be held independently of the other, but the first one provides a reason to welcome the truth of the second.

In his recent wonderful book, Classical Liberalism and th

Bryan Caplan recently blogged about “the awful” John Stua

The term materialism has two entirely different connotations. The first connotation refers to values. The second connotation is ontological.

Like all wars, a just war is laced with dangers beyond the inferno of the battles, especially if war funding relies to a significant degree on the printing press.