Norman Barry

Latest work

Concept of “Nature” in Liberal Political Thought

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Norman Barry

The connection between a theory of human nature and normative political theory is a puzzling one. Despite the depredations suffered by naturalistic theories of ethics and politics at the hands of...

Letter from England: Why Tories Lose

07/12/2001 Mises Daily Norman Barry

Conservatives’ idea of public policy is to outspend the statists and outregulate the regulators. And, writes Norman Barry, they have lost six million votes since 1992.

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