Political Theory

A CNN report on a Russian police academy, writes Adam Young, masks the brutality of training children to serve as state revenue agents.

She won’t have to face the relentless frustration and anger that comes with trying to make a bureaucracy do what it is not established to do.

The unhappy truth is that Thomas Jefferson, a great libertarian theorist when out of office, was an outright disaster in power, writes Joseph Stromberg.

These agencies were established to intervene in the rights and liberties of Americans. A good cabinet, writes Bill Anderson, would work itself out of existence.

Politics means taking from some and giving to others, says Tom DiLorenzo; only the market economy can truly reveal the will of the people. 

Even under the new regime, fundamental economic freedoms will continue to be at risk, concludes Mark Brandly in his dissection of the Bush campaign manifesto.

The argument that democracy is better than revolution because it provides for "peaceful change" doesn't hold up to logical scrutiny, writes Murray Rothbard in this unpublished piece (1959)

When, precisely, did a foreign power ever threaten to take it away? All threats to voting rights have been domestic, write Joseph Stromberg.

Is the recent election "clear evidence" that your vote counts? Not at all, say two economists. It shows precisely the opposite.

Ronald Dworkin gets off to a poor start, but things are not so bad as they first appear. He tells us that equality is the sovereign political virtue. What could be more anti-libertarian?