Big Government

With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state solves none of the problems he presents.

In pursuing the so-called green economy, Great Britain’s Labour Government must resort to socialist planning and totalitarian propaganda.

Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving others and those who are getting rich by expropriating wealth through force.

Political power over markets doesn’t just corrupt individuals—it corrupts the price system itself.

Forget freedom. The rage today in politics is equality, not the kind of equality that promotes liberty but rather the state attempting to force equal opportunities and outcomes. In the end, we get neither liberty nor equality.

This is not a cycle of greed. It is spontaneous order doing what it always does: finding the path around the obstruction.

Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and transportation has created a self-reinforcing system where every new crisis produces more regulation, more spending, and fewer productive citizens.

The federal income tax is the crown jewel of a massive welfare-warfare state.

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

States like California are learning this in real time, as high-income earners relocate in response to rising tax pressure and growing fiscal uncertainty.