Political Theory
Stick It in Your Earmark
President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping “drain the swamp” of corruption,
The Constitutional Democrat
James Fenimore Cooper, America’s first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans’ sense of history in the
Conservatism Turned Upside Down
In addition to being a history of the Old Right, this book is the closest thing to an autobiography of this extraordinary man that readers can expect to see.
Donors, Democrats, and Eminent Domain
Issue 21.2 of the Journal of Libertarian Studies offers a variety of perspectives on constitutional interpretation, American democracy, and alterna
A Political Theory of Geeks and Wonks
The geeks will look back at their lives with satisfaction that they did their best to realize a dream. The wonks, looking back at their lives, see that they were little more than a cog in a machine.
The Dilemma of State Economic Development
State economic development agencies stand athwart this minarchist ideal. Their increased prominence today is just the latest form of mercantilism that classical economists rightly opposed in the past.