Political Theory

Finally, at the end of the century, a group of French intellectuals tell the truth about the horrifying crimes of communism. 

According to the old "Global 2000" Report, the world was supposed to end in the next few weeks.

The violent protesters in Seattle, smashing windows and hating business, were anarchists of a certain type. Another anarchist tradition upholds private property as inviolable. 

War and methodological empiricism are freedom's greatest enemies. Both must be soundly rejected to achieve the classical ideal of liberty. 

How a bi-partisan accord on Social Security is still costing American taxpayers to this day and will continue to do so in the coming years.

There is nothing like a good target to get a writer going, and the contributors to this excellent symposium have found a very worthy target indeed. 

This is not a bad book, but almost every major thesis in it is wrong or unproved. According to our author, human society depends to a large extent on "social capital." 

Roberta Modugno has analyzed the work of Murray Rothbard from the standpoint of her professional specialty, the history of political thought.

During the 1980s, just as the free market's reputation was beginning to rebound, the guardians of the national psyche discovered "workaholism." The victim of this disorder was defined as working compulsively, spending far too much time at his occupation, too little with friends or loved ones. He loses the capacity to enjoy what little leisure he allows himself, and eventually cannot even recall the point of his own frenetic activity. We were all advised to ease up, slow down, and smell the roses.

Proper liberals feigned shock and disgust when the NAACP released the results of a poll showing that 50 percent of young people believe that racial separation is fine so long as different races have "equal opportunities." The poll, co-sponsored by the NAACP and Zogby International, surveyed more than 1000 people between the ages of 18 and 29. An earlier survey found similar results.