Political Theory

Lincoln’s main objective was protectionism for Northern manufacturers and the creation of a massive spoils system, writes Thomas DiLorenzo

There is a class of pundits that defends public confidence in big government, and trashes those who celebrate its undoing. These pundits had a fit following this year' s election that revealed the least flattering side of the US system of government. If we thought the process of making laws was ugly, few were prepared to observe in slow motion the even more contemptible process of picking lawmakers.

The famed economist seems never to have met a government intervention he can't justify or a tax cut he can't attack, writes Christopher Westley.

Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.

He's been searching for a legacy for years, and now at last he leaves two, says William Anderson: a recession and high energy prices.

A CNN report on a Russian police academy, writes Adam Young, masks the brutality of training children to serve as state revenue agents.

She won’t have to face the relentless frustration and anger that comes with trying to make a bureaucracy do what it is not established to do.

The unhappy truth is that Thomas Jefferson, a great libertarian theorist when out of office, was an outright disaster in power, writes Joseph Stromberg.

These agencies were established to intervene in the rights and liberties of Americans. A good cabinet, writes Bill Anderson, would work itself out of existence.

Politics means taking from some and giving to others, says Tom DiLorenzo; only the market economy can truly reveal the will of the people.