Political Theory

Garry Wills is a man with a mission. He wishes to expose for the falsehood that it is a myth that has bedeviled American history. 

Walter Block decries statists who distort the meaning of words, and also those who kowtow to their politically correct agenda.

The attempt by government to collect information on citizens has a long and troubled history. The lesson is that power, once granted, will always be abused.

In a fine case study of interventionism, regulators finally give in and reversed their previous mandates that led to an environmental mess.

All talk of disproportionate wealth gains belongs in the dustbin of history. 

The idea of American freedom does not date from the late 1780s; the Constitution was the culmination of generations of practical self-government.

In 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith assailed American spending patterns. Consumers, he told us in The Affluent Society, spend too much on such fripperies as large tailfins on cars. 

We are so used to celebrating the glories of the democratic state, we often forget its limitations. 

You may never have heard of them, but they battled against the main cause of state expansion in the 20th century. 

In 1940, Mises watched the rise of the total state and the destruction of Europe, and believed he had been "the historian of decline." But the designation doesn't apply to today's Misesians.