Political Theory

In a usual wartime situation, the government massively expands and then falls back only partially after it is over. The present circumstances, however, are even worse than wartime.

The opponents of liberty are always ready to shift their ground, no matter how often they are refuted with evidence and argument-a fact that makes the task of showing their errors no less necessary.  

Groupthink is a process of gradualism that seeks to gently merge the followers into a pack with leaders.

For many years, freedom and liberty have been in great peril in the United States. A speech by George Reisman

A long-out-of-print work makes the case for privatizing everything. Robert Murphy is the reviewer.

This is one of those books that is expected to take the middlebrow world by storm. Daniel Ryan reviews Hardt's and Negri's Marxist tract, Empire.

Charity funded through voluntary contributions is vastly superior to the welfare state. It should stay off the dole. 

The political and ideological forces that gave rise to Bolshevism at the turn of the century are similarly inspiring the movement that looted and burned last month in Genoa.

Only real savings and labor, not pieces of paper called money, can create new capital goods. Gene Callahan explains.

Widespread panic set in this summer when the party of King Simeon II won a majority in Bulgaria's recent elections. There were ominous warnings about this being the first East European state to take a step toward restoring monarchical figures to power. So many people associate democracy with freedom and monarchy with tyranny that any attempt to revisit pre-democratic systems of government is regarded as evil.