During the year of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Paul Meany reflects on how the American Declaration ...

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights ...

Brian Mandeville explores the many ways that governments are similar to, and differ from, robbers. Brian Mandeville is a fourth- year PhD Student at George Mason University, a PhD Fellow at the ...

Andrew Jackson conflated his own will with the will of the people, and ran roughshod over the Constitution’s constraints on his power in pursuit of goals that were often contemptible. Miles Smith IV ...

Klein assesses George Will’s two most renowned books, 36 years apart, Statecraft as Soulcraft (1983) and The Conservative Sensibility (2019), finding some changes upon an underlying continuity—rather ...

Saul Zimet is a Website and Data Coordinator for Human Progress .org at the Cato Institute and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New ...

Crypto- anarchism is a philosophy whose advocates think technology can assist them in creating communities based on consent rather than coercion. Crypto- anarchists wish to be free from state ...

The socialist calculation debate revolves around the question of whether central planners can, at least in principle, make the economic calculations necessary to achieve the rational, efficient ...

Vincent Geloso is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Du Grand Rattrapage au ...

War is the quintessential undertaking of the state, especially the modern centralized nation- state of the past five or six centuries. Indeed, the relationship between the two is encapsulated in the ...

Charles Murray, an American political scientist and nonacademic researcher, received his doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, but is unusual among ...

Gary S. Becker is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1992 for “having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to ...