Political Theory

The lands were public and the firefighters government employees. These two facts have much to do with why they died. Walter Block explains. 

A former secretary of labor regrets the state's declining effective power over economic life. A review by Christopher Westley. 

Conservatives' idea of public policy is to outspend the statists and outregulate the regulators. And, writes Norman Barry, they have lost six million votes since 1992.

Sometimes you have to make a choice between man and the natural world. As Tibor Machan notes, environmentalists often side against man. 

John Locke's great Second Treatise of Government was the decisive influence on the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Here are crucial excerpts.

Jack Kemp writes in favor of the gold standard. But will his plan bring sound money? Steve Piraino says no.

Professor Jaffa has set himself a difficult task. He presents Abraham Lincoln as a champion of freedom for all. Not for Honest Abe the virulent racist sentiments of his contemporaries about blacks.

In 1957, a businessman and radio personality named Robert LeFevre (1911-1986) founded a very special institution in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In his private studies, he had discovered the libertarian intellectual tradition. He noted the dire need for an institution that would educate people from all walks of life in the philosophy of freedom. He took it upon himself and named it the Freedom School, later changing the name to Rampart College before it shut down in 1968. Afterward, he carried on his work in South Carolina under the patronage of business giant Roger Milliken.

This remarkable new book, published by the Mises Institute and edited by John Denson, is the first full-scale revisionist treatment of the American presidency. This is the history that civics class hid from you.

Now, the greens are denouncing SUVs for their expense. But Karen De Coster unearths their real concern: not economy but control.