Political Theory

Recorded 15 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 January 2005.

Despite years of policy debacle and dictatorship, writes Ryan McMaken, Chile has taken a turn toward liberalism that has gone largely unnoticed.

It is the conviction of the liberal intellectual tradition dating back to the Middle Ages that society contains within itself the capacity for internal self-management. This is in contrast to the claims of the sociology literature, which posits that human society is riddled with conflict between groups: races, ages, ethnicities, and abilities.

The most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism to almost totalitarian statist nationalism.

Thomas Woods's superb new book has already achieved fame as the first Austrian-inspired book to be on the New York Times bestseller list

Billions and billions were spent to elect our leaders, and Erich Mattei draws attention to the sheer waste of it all. 

Delivered to the Hillsdale Liberals, Hillsdale College, on 31 August 2004.

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a theorist much admired by Hitler, claimed in his book The Third Reich (1923) that liberalism and nationalism are necessarily at odds. 

We are being bombarded with all of the same old myths about the evils of tax loopholes, writes Thomas DiLorenzo, the alleged imperative of "tax fairness," and the desirability of "revenue neutrality."