Political Theory

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. 

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.