Political Theory

Well, not quite.

Harvey Mansfield, writing in the Wall Street Journal, slaps together

However horrendous we might find the mass shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and other places, the fact is that when disaffected people start planning mass mayhem, the lack of a gun will not stop them.

Bill Steigerwald, associate editor, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, puts the horrible Virginia Tech shooting in

Those who lend the government money are purchasing a promise to take someone's property in the future in order to repay the loan.

Here’s a fantastic video dramatizing the fact that pirates and emperors are really the same thing.

Maybe the authors of the Federalist Papers were liars.

The actual conflict at the root of history is the great struggle between freedom and despotism, between the individual and the state, between the voluntary means and coercion.

The environmental movement has been doing its utmost to sabotage energy production since the 1960s, long before it was able to latch onto the prosp

James Wilson (9/4/1742–8/28/1798) was one of the most important of America’s founding fathers, but is now one of the least known.