Political Theory

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.

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.

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

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.

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.