Political Theory

This year's political campaigns highlight at least one positive trend: the "best and brightest," who nearly wrecked us, are no longer wasting their talents serving the state. 

In the last several decades, step by step, the system has become Diocletianized.

Government has an influence over programming because of an age-old political decision to nationalize the airwaves. 

The nation state just isn't what it used to be--and it's a good thing too.

Gary Wills's new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb. 

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

That Nasa is a boondoggle and a socio-economic drain should be obvious to all. How does this bureaucracy continue to get away with it?

So regulated, cartelized, and inefficient, the industry nearly qualifies as socialist by Misesian standards. 

The last turn-of-the-century gave birth to Progressivism which was really statism in disguise. But after a century of the state, freedom still stands a chance.