Political Theory

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2001.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Clifford Thies asks: Can we really expect government to create quality cities using redistribution, government programs, and regulations? He shows that the worst cities in America are those that depend on government money and tax everyone to pay for it.

Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.

They just don't make statesmen the way they used to, writes Doug French. Every week a new revelation comes to light about some senator or congressman's ethical transgressions.

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The definition of freedom is not complicated, writes Lew Rockwell. Freedom means that which the government does not control.

There will always be "political pilgrims" who say otherwise. This is a phrase coined by the sociologist Paul Hollander, who documented the absurd travels of Western leftists to remote parts of the world where communism was being tried out. They invariably found a future of prosperity, freedom, and justice for all, and developed an incredible blindness to terror, starvation, and despotism of all sorts, dismissing it as necessary to block the work of evil dead-enders. Also, in another famous excuse, if the government has to expend so many resources on fighting off dissidents, it couldn’t make basic provisions for the masses – or so goes the claim.