End the Shutdown, Again
If every new virus or variation warrants shutdowns or new vaccines, we will face an unending dystopian hellscape of state intervention in our medical decisions.
Political Theory
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The Role of Intellectuals and Anti-intellectuals
How can anyone get away with controlling a state? Why would others put up with such an institution?
Our Corporate Oligarchy and the Road to National Socialism
The Nazi regime represented not a unique evil in history but rather a now conventional combination of two dangerous ideological trends: nationalism and socialism.
We’re in the Middle of a Long War with the State
Often, when the “smash the state” position is invoked—especially among those less familiar with the state as an institution—further investigation reveals a dangerous lack of precision about what exactly the state is.
Russell Kirk’s “Libertarians, the Chirping Sectaries”
Professor Bradley Birzer from Hillsdale College joins the show to dissect Russell Kirk's famous 1981 essay condemning libertarians.
European Unification as the New Frontier of Collectivism
Present-day prophets of a united Europe share with past conquerors like Napoleon and Hitler a strong preference for a society directed, more or less violently, by a small political elite. All in the name of "eternal peace."
Spencer and Hayek’s Liberal Evolutionism, and Why It Should Omit the Nation-State
Evolutionary social theory can form part of a liberal theory of politics, but Hayek and Spencer's evolutionary arguments to explain the emergence of freedom in mass societies are deficient.
Why “Public Goods” Don’t Justify Taxation
According to customary analysis, public goods will not be supplied efficiently. But it does not follow that the good will not be supplied at all, or in a quantity insufficient to “do the job.”
