Political Theory

Recorded 10/16/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.

Should we prefer the "open society" or the free society? Is there a conflict between social cooperation and economic competition? There are the essential questions, writes George Reisman, that are driving debate about the future of economic liberty.

Sean Corrigan shows how Rome and her history can give us a reaffirmation of our unshaken belief in the ability of Everyman, acting as a free individual, to repair all the damage ever done by history’s tyrants and their tax gatherers.

The President today, writes Adam Young, is the focus of political and increasingly social life. He is presented to the public as an all-purpose master of every issue and situation, a veritable demigod in his reputation for near omniscience and infallibility.

Presented on 29 September 2004 at the Library of the Metropolitan Club, New York, New York. Sponsored by Mr. Kenneth M. Garschina.

Among American political theorists and philosophers, Michael Walzer has won recognition as the foremost authority on just war theory. 

The dedication of Restoring the Lost Constitution, "To James Madison and Lysander Spooner," at once alerts us that we confront an unusual book. 

Debate over Mises’s socialist calculation argument has been going on since 1920, and one might have thought that at this late date, it would be difficult to say something new. Bryan Caplan has done exactly that.

Thomas Szasz has long been the foremost critic of involuntary psychiatric commitment, and his many books on psychiatric tyranny have won for him a well-deserved reputation as a champion of liberty.

Bruce Ramsey reports on his visit to a seminar conducted by Jeffrey Friedman of Barnard College. "The first day at Princeton has been a hosing-down."