Political Theory

In the latest episode of Mises Weekends, Jeff Deist and Yuri Maltsev discuss Socialism, Fascism, and Trumpism.

In a capitalist world, socialists would be free to form their own socialist communities. They're largely free to do so now, although few do. This may be due to the fact that even the utopian version of socialism seems unpleasant.

Jeff Deist and Yuri Maltsev discuss Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Western progressives' silly and enduring love affair with socialism.

It is remarkable, since Simpson is no libertarian, that his views on the state converge so substantially with views some libertarians have long defended.

Government failure was being felt everywhere this week, from the massive law-enforcement failure in Sen Bernardino to the crumbling economy in Brazil. Meanwhile, government tells us it only needs a little more money, power, and time to solve all problems.

Jeff Deist and Łukasz Dominiak discuss the recent elections in Poland, as well as the street protests that you might not have heard about in western media.

The idea that the state will one day dry up and blow away is an unrealistic fantasy. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be abolitionists. Our goal should always be to seize every opportunity to shrink the State.

Everything in human life is organized around how we make decisions about three things: scarcity, property, and relationships.

Jeff Deist lays out four possible strategic options for Libertarians.

The Paris attacks forced the world's attention away from causes such as the plight of "white privilege" on college campuses and back to the consequences of blowback to interventionist foreign policy. Unfortunately, the political response to these atrocities have been predictable.