Political Theory

I expected to dislike this book. Stanley Fish, the author of distinguished books on Milton and George Herbert, long ago found the world of literary scholarship too confining. 

Among many American conservatives, Eric Voegelin ranks as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Even the merest glance at the present selection of his essays suffices to show the qualities that impressed,

Releasing the government's stored oil may have political effects, which has always been the point, says Thomas DiLorenzo. 

The idea of vouchers sounds good, but it has too many inherent flaws, like Oskar Lange’s "market socialism."

The Austrian Theory has come under fire; Gene Callahan responds in defense.

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?