Political Theory

Like it or not, libertarians have divided themselves along left-right lines. Here's a brief explanation.

After years of working as a DC journalist, Bovard found that "the more oppressive the government acted, the more slavish the press became."

Eastman saw Lenin as a dogmatist guilty of great crimes, and socialism a recipe for disaster. Reflections on the Failure of Socialism is the record of his insightful assault on socialism and his defense of the free market.

Joshua Gottlieb is an economist who co-authored a recent paper examining the effect of government policy and physician income.

Today's anticapitalists fall into a familiar pattern pioneered by Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile.

Economist James Buchanan thinks that a state is necessary, because people wouldn't be able to agree on the boundaries of their rights.

Manny Sethi, a trauma surgeon running to be the next senator from the state of Tennessee, discusses his journey from medicine to politics, as well as his views on healthcare. 

The economic nationalist faces a dilemma. Foreign aid handouts and economic protectionism are not only wholly compatible in theory, but the effects of foreign aid perfectly complement economic nationalists’ goals.

The egalitarian society is pledged to common cultural values resulting in a rigorous homogeneity. Thus, a man who stands in contempt of the prevailing ideology has no rights under the law.

Murray Rothbard explains that anarcho-communists' longing for a preindustrial primitivism would mean starvation and death for nearly all of mankind and a grinding subsistence for the ones remaining.