Political Theory

In the 1840s, New York state was home to a powerful mixture of democracy, populism, and free markets. The result was lower taxes and a greatly weakened government. 

The so-called progressives sought to shape and control selected aspects of American family life, including education, work, liquor consumption, suffrage, and family size. 

The recent firing of Tucker Carlson by Fox News has set off speculation as to why Fox pulled the trigger. It's no mystery, writes Michael Rectenwald.

Mises saw essentialist values as fallacies because they were unverifiable and saw metaphysical ideas as a key component of authoritarianism. His solution was utilitarianism.

Mises saw essentialist values as fallacies because they were unverifiable and saw metaphysical ideas as a key component of authoritarianism. His solution was utilitarianism.

Recorded in Tampa, Florida on February 25, 2023.

No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.

Mises and Hayek used "classical liberal” to distinguish themselves from the Left. Today the term is used primarily to appease the Left.

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the topic of nationalism and the role it can play in political decentralization.

A serious political discussion at the federal level would center on structural problems of war and peace, debt and the dollar, and entitlements. But America in 2022 is a deeply unserious country.