Political Theory

The nation state just isn't what it used to be--and it's a good thing too.

Gary Wills's new book condemns distrust of government, and then fails in an attempt to cloak statist bias in historical garb. 

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

That Nasa is a boondoggle and a socio-economic drain should be obvious to all. How does this bureaucracy continue to get away with it?

So regulated, cartelized, and inefficient, the industry nearly qualifies as socialist by Misesian standards. 

The last turn-of-the-century gave birth to Progressivism which was really statism in disguise. But after a century of the state, freedom still stands a chance. 

Finally, at the end of the century, a group of French intellectuals tell the truth about the horrifying crimes of communism. 

According to the old "Global 2000" Report, the world was supposed to end in the next few weeks.

The violent protesters in Seattle, smashing windows and hating business, were anarchists of a certain type. Another anarchist tradition upholds private property as inviolable.