Political Theory

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 19 January 2005.

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” the officer Marcellus claims in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

You can hack your shower, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but do not do this lest you endanger your status as a law-abiding citizen who takes wimpy showers.

I have some vague memory of a time when the idea of American conservatism had something to do with a suspicion of an omnipotent autocratic state.

I have a column on the controversy over libertarians being paid to write colum

Liberty cannot be imposed in the way that socialist systems of old were imposed, because genuine liberty is not just another form of government management, writes Lew Rockwell.

Thomas Woods here addresses a question that many of his readers will find of vital personal concern, but even those who need not confront this question directly have much to gain from his analysis of it. 

William McBride, a leading authority on Sartre’s philosophy, looks at John Rawls’s theory of justice from an unusual angle. He calls attention to the seldom-cited last paragraph of A Theory of Justice.

he title of Larry Arnhart’s valuable book seems a paradox. What has Darwinism, a theory about the origins of biological species, to do with a political viewpoint? Arnhart takes conservatism in a broad sense,