Democracy

After all the romanticizing about democracy and voting, in the end, we are still left with the sad fact that the worst always find their way to the top.

Trying to understand the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the exclusive viewpoint of modern Western democracy is to ignore the long history of authoritarian leadership in Russia.

Jeff and Bob discuss whether America has its own oligarchs instead of what Hoppe terms "natural elites."

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop mock the self-awareness of beltway foreign policy experts.

It has been more than fifty years since Egyptian strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser died, but his unfortunate legacy of imposing socialism on Egypt still harms the nation and its economy.

F.A. Hayek wrote that the "worst get on top" when it comes to government. Nearly eighty years after he wrote those words, nothing has changed.

Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.

The F.A. Hayek Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Greg and Joy Morin.

Today, progressives govern by the law of good intentions, and when government has good intentions, the results, no matter how disastrous, don't matter.

In many ways, the liberal democracy that had its roots in nineteenth-century liberalism seems to have run its course. Can we revive it, or does something more authoritarian take its place?