Political Theory

The system is morally bankrupt, but there is only one means to change it: eliminate the redistributive state. (Column by Tibor Machan)  

The 1999 Nobel Laureate in economics on the origins of gold as a monetary instrument, and why it is so reviled by backers of political intervention. 

Intellectuals who long for the supposed good-old days of traditional life—and their tacit support of the managerial state. (Article by Paul Gottfried). 

The key to Paul Gottfried's brilliant book may be found in note 44 of Chapter 4. Here he remarks: "This original Weberian notion [of a tyranny of values] is most fully developed in Carl Schmitt's controversial essay Die Tyrannei der Werte.

Sanford Lakoff admires Max Lerner greatly. As a student of Lerner's at Brandeis University in 1949, his "adulation soon became obvious and made me the butt of jokes." 

The old formula is at work: distract the people from internal corruption. (Article by Yuri N. Maltsev)

Has capitalism triumphed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and, if so, what type? (A news item from the Wall Street Journal)

Why the US goes to war for Kosovars but tells the East Timorese to go jump in the Pacific.

A radical manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard, restored to the original and back in print after two decades.

Keynesian economics continues to infect much public debate, despite being debunked for decades by Austrian economists, some mainstream economists, and reality itself.