Political Theory

What would Mises think about the current state of the liberal project he laid out 100 years ago?  

The theory of class conflict did not begin with Karl Marx. It began with two French libertarians, and James Mill developed a similar theory in the 1820s and 1830s.

Allowing a space on the ballot for "none of the above" would be a step in the right direction toward a slightly less farcical political system.

We need an anti-politics movement just as surely as we need an antiwar movement. 

Bob Murphy asks a series of tough (but fair, he hopes) questions for conservatives, ranging from tariffs to impeachment to drug prohibition.

Michael Rectenwald argues that Big Digital serves as the chief arbiter of expression with the power to delete "dangerous" persons from its various platforms.

"Woke capitalism" — referring to companies that engage in corporate activism — tells us a great deal about contemporary corporate capitalism, the political left, and the relationship between the two.

I offer my own definition of government: Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

When a parent leaves the work force to focus on parenting, this shows up in government stats as lower employment and less consumer spending — suggesting a less productive economy. But that's not what's going on at all.