Political Theory

In the past, smart French students dreamed of attending the ENA, an educational citadel of government planning. No longer.

In addition to sobering tales of government malfeasance, a new work by Roberts and Stratton offers us a theory explaining why these abuses occur: review by Robert Murphy 

The habits of empire are a bad fit with U.S. ideals, institutions, and love of liberty: a manifesto by Jon Basil Utley. 

Martin van Creveld's outstanding book traces the origin, growth, and decline of what Nietzsche termed "that coldest of all cold monsters, the state." By "state," our author means something more limited than do contemporary libertarians.

Pundits and politicians, following innumerable scholars for 150 years, will twist and mangle the text to discern some other meaning from the document besides the obvious one.

He is working with an outdated and unsound theory of how firms compete in the marketplace.

There's no difference between the orthodox socialist position on this company and Judge Jackson's. 

Billions are dolled out to scholars every year, but only to those who are willing to accept--or least not contradict--the government's ideological assumptions.

The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.

An agency within an agency, and the political battle over its future, provides a case study of a much larger problem: government can't rationally allocate resources.