Political Theory

When it comes to trade, the best US policy, or that of any country, is the elimination of all barriers to imports.

The EU is ill-equipped to deal with the crises that lie ahead.

"What makes a free society?" A debate between the marxist and the libertarian.

Simple, unilateral free trade is better than a trade "deal" between governments. But, some trade deals are definitely worse than others.

Both Trump and Clinton agree the US government needs to spend billions more on infrastructure. More spending is not the boon they think it is.

An economics that forsakes the dignity of the human person and his capacity for creativity and aesthetics does so at its own peril and disgrace.

When it comes to the effects of taxation, Krugman the economist appears to disagree with Krugman the New York Times columnist.

Threatened by the existence of private digital currencies, central banks are looking to create some of their own.

Mark Thornton and Grégoire Canlorbe discuss Mises, Rothbard, the Drug War, and Adam Smith in this interview from Institut Coppet in France.

James Fenimore Cooper, America's first national novelist, saw real danger from the impulse toward majority rule as a panacea for every complaint.