Taxes and Spending

Robert Nozick, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia presented his by-now-famous view that “a minimal state, limited to the narrow functions

The doctrine of natural liberty is ultimately grounded on two premises which are necessary to the understanding of why governments are “crimi

A characteristic feature of modern civilization is the steady growth of government.1 This government growth occurs under two forms: either through

The municipal reform movement of the progressive era succeeded in establishing local government monopoly in the provision of urban services. Competitive markets in such services as fire-fighting, street lighting, refuse removal, transit, and even policing then gave way to municipal bureaus and departments.

There are those to whom the question of whether to privatize the nation’s police forces is mere academic whimsy—a question of consequence only to t

The defense of government schooling, like government itself, is based on fallacies.

It is evident that much of the debate in favor of unions is emotional.

In this article, Laurence M. Vance offers a review of John Merrifield’s School Choices: True and False.

According to many economists we need the state to provide public goods.

David Beito did a great service for the scholarship of liberty and American history with his rediscovery of the Great Depression-era tax resistance