Political Theory

A survey of mainstream economists shows that a majority want to go to work for Gore, which, says William Anderson, is all we need to know

Benjamin Tucker wrote that "Power feeds on its spoils, and dies when its victims refuse to be despoiled."

Back in Print: A book by Murray N. Rothbard that shaped a generation of intellectuals and laid the groundwork for a revolt against centralized social and economic management.

New anti-gun book reveals the class hatred felt by intellectuals for a broad section of the American people, says Joseph Stromberg. 

I expected to dislike this book. Stanley Fish, the author of distinguished books on Milton and George Herbert, long ago found the world of literary scholarship too confining. 

Among many American conservatives, Eric Voegelin ranks as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Even the merest glance at the present selection of his essays suffices to show the qualities that impressed,

Many people have wondered why modern intellectuals hate capitalism. In "The Treatment of Capitalism by Continental Intellectuals," one of the essays included in Professors Hale's and Landy's excellent collection, 

Releasing the government's stored oil may have political effects, which has always been the point, says Thomas DiLorenzo. 

The Austrian Theory has come under fire; Gene Callahan responds in defense.

The idea of vouchers sounds good, but it has too many inherent flaws, like Oskar Lange’s "market socialism."