Political Theory

Pages 17–32 in the text.

"He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the growth of human freedom. 

Bob Murphy has a three-hour conversation with former Military Intelligence Sergeant, Donnie Gebert.

Readers of Tim Carney's 'Alienated America' will gain much from the author's account of civil society. After all, isolated individuals do not make for a successful marketplace. Free markets succeed best in the context a stable civil society.

Jeff Deist and Matt McCaffrey discuss Omnipotent Government's absolute relevance today.

The great boon of human freedom experienced in earlier decades has, in the long record of thousands of years, been enjoyed by a mere fraction of the people and for only a brief moment in history

Why do so many people resent capitalism, even when they benefit enormously from it?

The Secretary of Defense acts as an indispensable liaison between parties, business, and the state.  The job is guarded by a special class of loyalists, usually extremely bright individuals chosen by the state's elites.

Socialism, democratic or otherwise, rides on the back of force and violence. When they drop the veil, its a government agent pointing a gun.