Political Theory

The 2019 Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

If you think healthcare pricing seems nonsensical now, just wait until you see what happens when mandated coverage removes any semblance of rational insurance pricing.

Some states are passing laws where majority approval is found in just a handful of counties. This means just one or two regions of large states are forcing laws on the rest.

Bob describes his vision of a Rothbardian society.

A society in which [classical] liberal principles are put into effect is usually called a capitalist society, and the condition of that society, capitalism.

Conservatives seem to want a "robust" state to replace the cultural, religious, and economic institutions that states destroyed in the first place.

The professional custodians of American views of history have always named the same presidents as "great." It's always the presidents who abused power frequently, and expanded government power the most.

It's government — not markets — that intervene to "stimulate" ever greater amounts of spending and consumption. A healthy market economy, meanwhile, relies on both saving and spending.

Dr. Gordon analyzes Yoram Hazony's new book The Virtue of Nationalism, in which Dr. Gordon examines Hazony's flawed but useful critique of political universalism.

Mises wrote this essay in 1940 from Geneva, where he lived after Nazis forced him out of Austria and his apartment was ransacked by German troops.