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Joseph R. Stromberg recounts the life of John Taylor as well as his political contributions. Volume 6, Number 1 (1982) Stromberg, Joseph R. “Country Ideology, Republicanism, and Libertarianism: The thought of John Taylor of Caroline.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 6, No. 1 (1982):

As we approach the centennial of the Second Anglo–Boer War ( Tweede Vryheidsoorlog , or “Second War for Freedom”), reassessment of the South African experience seems in order. Whether the recent surrender by Afrikaner political leaders of their “central theme” and the dismantling of their grandiose Apartheid state will lead to heaven on earth (as

In 1792, Thomas Paine sounded a cautionary note about the economics of empire: The most unprofitable of all commerce is that connected with foreign dominion. To a few individuals it may be beneficial, merely because it is commerce; but to the nation it is a loss. The expense of maintaining dominion more than absorbs the profit of any trade. Had

If, as Richard O. Curry writes, “the politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction ought to be considered as a unit,” then the politics of Reconstruction began the moment that Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders chose war over the Lower South’s secession. Volume 16, Number 2 (2002) Stromberg, Joseph R. “Third Thoughts on Contracting Out.”

In this article, Joseph R. Stromberg reviews Chris Sciabarra’s Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism . Volume 16, Number 3 (2002) Stromberg, Joseph R. “Book Review: Chris Sciabarra, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism .” Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, No. 3 (2002):

Douglass North has written many essays and books over forty or more years in which he has sought to reintegrate economic theory and economic history. His project became more and more ambitious over time, producing interesting insights, questions, and narratives. His early interests and work centered on the economics of location, transportation

The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which closed out the era of wars “of”—or allegedly “about”—religion, established what might be called a rule-bound cartel of sovereign, territorial states, conceived as externally equal to one another and internally hierarchical. At that moment, we see an end to any effective claim by the Papacy and the Holy Roman

The Iraq war, which Bush declared over on May 1, never seems to end.  

Iowa Troops Bring Billions from Iraq (AP): “The United States has seized billions of dollars in U.S. currency from Iraq, but some of that money can’t be used to reconstruct the war-torn country because the bills are in too large of denominations. The U.S. government is shipping some of the money to America to be changed into smaller bills; then it

Democracy equals public debt, but  this guy thinks it’s wonderful .