Political Theory

There I stood with 8 olive pits in my cheek, talking to the checkout lady at the grocery store as she waved my half-pound container of antipasto ov

Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.

Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.
 

F.A. Hayek is known for making a number of important contributions to economics and social thought. If one had to identify a single concept that captures the thrust of Hayek’s intellectual project it would be “spontaneous order.”

David Schmidtz means the title of his outstanding book literally. He does not present a tightly integrated theory of justice; rather his "contextual functionalism . . . 

Martha Nussbaum’s Frontiers of Justice is one of the oddest books I have ever reviewed. Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher, and she raises some issues that are well worth our consideration; 

Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of th

The flag is Green now, instead of Red. And the lyrics are different. But the tune is still the same old tune.

Josef Sima presents the Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture: The Quest for a Property-Based, Misesian Econom