Political Theory

"Your doctor and nurse, no matter how nice today, will become the bureaucracy."

Far and Wide leaves us wondering if Peart applies the same demands for empirical proof to bleeding heart government policies.

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down.

The markets are not a struggle between rich and poor, strong and weak. On the contrary, they help humans work together to benefit everyone. 

People engaging in motivated ignorance “neither know — nor want to know — what the opposition has to say.”

Many young idealists moved to Stalin's Soviet Union expecting to find a paradise. They often ended up in labor camps or as victims in various purges.

Although libertarian principles are radical, the path to fulfilling them may not be that radical at all. 

Martin Van Buren favored peace, freedom, and decentralization. Thus, most historians are biased against him.

The division of labor is what made the West rich and has kept it rich. It's telling that Marx planned to abolish the division of labor altogether.

The central problem that confronts modern libertarian political theory is how to place limits on the number and kinds of intrusions in which government may engage — and how to ensure that it will confine itself to these limits.