Politics

How many people in our history―a couple hundred years―took the oath of office, and how many times did they violate the oath of office?

Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Here on Income Tax Day, we recommend that next time, they should do nothing.

While Ludwig von Mises wrote in favor of democracy, his support for it was utilitarian at best, and he certainly did not have a near-religious affinity for it. Mises saw democracy as a means to peacefully transfer political power, period.

While the ruling elites decry populism, what they don't say is that populism has arisen precisely because the ruling classes have done everything they could to diminish freedom.

Nick Gillespie joins Bob to make the case that American Libertarians are too pessimistic.

On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.

In his review of The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination, David Gordon examines systems of ethical norms. The Misesians have the best insights, of course.

According to Marx, all ideas represent class-based interests, leaving no room for objective truth. The problem is that Marxists claim to hold to objective truth, but manage to contradict themselves.

While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.