Political Theory

Created in the name of free trade, and even backed by some free traders, the World Trade Organization has become what its fine-print promised it would  be: a vehicle for economic planning.

It's an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.

The real meaning of Thanksgiving: Plymouth was a socialist colony and it failed miserably.

In an interview with Mises.org, a leading German classical liberal explains how the government botched unification.

The most conspicious and odious symbol of socialist tyranny came down ten years ago. (Reflections by Tibor R. Machan)

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). 

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 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.