Political Theory

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 385-412 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 179-193 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 194-209 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach

The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill.

"Some may wonder why it took Hess 20 years to notice all this, why it took a man this obviously intelligent so long to grasp that the Republicans were pretty much the same as the New Deal Democrats he opposed, but with window dressing."

When government assigns positive rights to others, some of us will be forced to pay for it. No right to healthcare is a legitimate right.

This Libertas Award acceptance speech was delivered at the XXIII Forum da Liberdade, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 12, 2010.  Tyranny ends when we cease to support voluntarily our own serfdom.

While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century

Like school vouchers, the flat tax, and other pretenders, the AFV assumes the necessity of state intervention and tries to bend liberty around such strictures.

Among the absolutist writers following Bodin, the 17th-century servitors of the absolute state, all hesitance or piety to the medieval legacy of strictly limited taxation was destined to disappear. State power, unlimited, was to be glorified.