How Welfare States Encourage Bad Economic Thinking
The prevalence of welfare-statist “redistribution” spells the death of sound economics.
Political Theory
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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.
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.
Lew Rockwell at the Ron Paul Institute’s “Peace and Prosperity” 2017 Conference
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.
