America’s Two Democracies
Government has a measure of control over markets, but the ultimate results are determined by the minute-to-minute decisions of the buyers and customers.
Political Theory
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The Subsidiarity Principle
Subsidiarity is the most realistic, pragmatic approach to creating more freedom in our lifetimes.
Waiting for a Republican Rollback of Government? Don’t Hold Your Breath
The Republicans failed on health care, but now they are offering a new plan for tax and spending cuts, with a promise of smaller government.
Join Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, Walter Jones, and special guests as they discuss prospects for peace in the Trump era.
Violence: How It’s Different From Market Exchange
Not all human action is truly voluntary in the marketplace. Violence can be used to distort and force a wide variety of relationship among human beings.
Can the UK’s Jacob Rees-Mogg Put the Conservatives Back on Track?
After a months of retreating on Brexit, and a botched election, the British Conservatives need a hard-line position on free trade and de-regulation.
Government Workers Don’t Magically Become Altruists
Why should one assume that those in control of the state would act in a way more in accord with justice than would actors on the private market?
Review of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
The theme of the book is that participation in American democracy by conservatives or libertarians threatens the destruction of American democracy.
What’s Driving Global Populism?
Judis’s mistakes about economics lead him to miss key aspects of the populist movement that culminated in Trump.
The Tragedy of the Commons in the American Prison System
The war on drugs actually pushes violent criminals back onto the streets in order to devote resources to non-violent criminals.
