Political Theory


The Structure of Libertarian Thought

“The Structure of the Libertarian Argument and Liberty as a Worldwide Phenomenon” with Tom Palmer, 05/04/2011 from Students For Liberty on Vimeo.

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Democracy and the Rule of Law

The first short introduction of the speaker, Gurcharan Das from India, is in Arabic, but the rest is in English, with Arabic translation. Gurcharan Das is the former CEO of…

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Legalized Theft: “Civil Asset Forfeiture” Explained

From the good folks at the Institute for Justice.

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Smart Questions About Rights

A. Barton Hinkle asks some very smart questions in his newspaper column “Debates of 2010 Raised More Questions.” Treating the failure to take someone’s money away from him as if…

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Freedom of Movement — A Human Right

Some countries don’t allow it internally; almost no country allows true freedom of movement externally (passports are required). Most people don’t think about it, but the US has essentially required…

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Wow. Russia’s propaganda channel on….communism

From Russia Today It reminds me of other utterly crazy and despicable attempts to dust off communist tyranny and try it “one more time”: for example, G. A. Cohen on…

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Happy 101st Year, Ronald Coase!

The great lawyer/economist Ronald Coase is cruising into his 101st year. His 100th birthday was a few days ago (December 30, 2010) and he is still at work teaching economics,…

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Gutsy….

I don’t recommend this sort of thing, but I think it’s good that police officers know that they shouldn’t arrest people for mocking bureaucrats, and that as public officials, they…

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Some Applebaumian Wisdom

Washington Post: “A government of the people’s every wish?” If you don’t live in this country all of the time, and I don’t, here is what you notice when you…

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The Hayek Interviews — You’ve Got to Watch

The Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala, which is a real world leader in online education and media, has just released the full Hayek interviews organized by Armen Alchian of UCLA…

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