Political Theory

A brilliant physicist and his musings on the failures of the state.

The Gore message is fairly simple: he promises a vast and costless increase in government benefits to everyone who will vote for him.  

The National Labor Relations Board is the Supreme Soviet of organized labor, and now it wants to wreck a thriving segment of the labor market, says Chris Westley. 

Good economic reasoning advises sharp constraints on the size and scope of government. Don Mathews says Gore's bad economics is merely a political tool. 

Once we accept that government has a legitimate role in divvying out economic favors among its citizens, on what basis do we make moral distinctions among competing demands?

For those of us who see television news and commentary as a vast, statist wasteland, the work of John Stossel has been welcome relief. But now he's under attack.

Did Frank Knight make a strong case for the free economy, or did he ultimately undermine his own position?

For the GOP's vice presidential nominee, oil prices shouldn't be too high or too low, but rather exactly what the government wants them to be. 

Paulina Borsook thinks the web breeds selfish geeks who don't care about others. Is she the Sinclair Lewis of our time?  

The jury verdicts looting tobacco companies and exonerating the federal government at Waco are both contrary to the rule of law.