Big Government

Robert Higgs demolishes many of the popular misconceptions about — and justifications for — the state.

As expected, this week's political convention failed to offer any real solutions to the problems we face.

When police are trained to regard the citizens as military opponents, bad things happen.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent variations of the same political theme.

Do not put your trust in democracy, but neither should you trust in a dictatorship. Rather, put your hope into radical political decentralization.

The USDA helps politically connected interest groups crush the competition.

National income statistics are becoming meaningless, not because of globalization, tax avoidance, or technology, but by their exultation by economists.

If we were to claim independence from the modern-day royalty of the beltway, the markets will ensure better holidays in the future.

Politicians like Juncker and Merkel speak of the EU as if it were a marriage or a family, to which one is bound by some transcendental duty.

Large parliaments with small district sizes and easy access to legislators are preferable to the EU system of huge constituencies and little access.