Political Theory

Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic.

It often happens that an ideological movement will make great strides through education and organization and cultural influence, only to take the fateful step of believing that politics is the next rung on the ladder to success.

It is particularly important that believers in liberty not take this course.

Eric Mattei explains the implications of 'civil rights' interventions: some must serve others regardless of their own personal choices.

Harry Valentine writes that South Africa's long term economic future appears bleak due to the policies that the nation's government has already enacted.

Recorded at Mises University 1995.

Politicians haven't the capacity to lead whole societies anywhere, writes Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. They are outclassed and outrun by trends in the world economy that are beyond the ability of the political class to control or direct. The market economy—globalized, enormously powerful, breathtaking in scope and breadth—is remaking the world in ways that far surpass any existing political development in the US, from the crafted blather of Congressional hearings on this or that to the mad rush to grab the presidential brass rings.

Presented to the Austrian Economics Colloquium on 9 February 1990.

From the Libertarian Heritage Series, sponsored by the Center for Libertarian Studies. Recorded on October 16, 1981.

In a brilliant lecture at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Sean Corrigan chronicles the failings of growth-driven government policies that impoverish in the long run.

Adam Young says that Robin Hood was a friend of the overtaxed, overregulated, and overgoverned masses.