Political Theory


The GOP Had Better Watch Out

My colleague David Boaz had an excellent piece of political analysis in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post: “The Bush Betrayal.”

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Psychiatric Tyranny and Abuse

Thomas Szasz, the pioneering critic of the psychiatric establishment and a leading libertarian thinker, spoke on psychiatry and liberty at the Cato Institute on September 25. (I think it will…

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Political Theory at Brown University: Globalization, Sexuality and Individual Rights, and Lots of Discussion and Hard Thinking

I’m off on Friday to Providence, Rhode Island to give the opening lecture and to lead a workshop at a conference at Brown University on political theory. It’s been organized…

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Every Apologist for Communist Tyranny Should Read This Book…..and So Should Every Friend of Freedom

Professor G. A. Cohen of Oxford University, whose acquaintance it was my distasteful experience to make while in Oxford, wrote in his book Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (Cambridge: Cambridge University…

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Globalization Is Grrrreat!: Abbreviated Version

Globalization Is Grrrreat!: Abbreviated Version of Talk Available The talk from my pro-globalization lecture talk was substantially cut down and published by the Cato Institute as a “Cato’s Letter.” It’s…

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Those Awful Multinational Corporations

I remember watching an ITV special in Britain on the horrors of globalization some years ago. The presenters pointed out how awful it was that multinational corporations were disrupting local…

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The Qur’an

I’ve tried to achieve an understanding of Islam by reading a variety of books, but the hardest has been the Qur’ān itself. It’s not an easy work to understand if…

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The Qur’an

I’ve tried to achieve an understanding of Islam by reading a variety of books, but the hardest has been the Qur’ān itself. It’s not an easy work to understand if…

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The Qur’an

I’ve tried to achieve an understanding of Islam by reading a variety of books, but the hardest has been the Qur’ān itself. It’s not an easy work to understand if…

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The Qur’an

I’ve tried to achieve an understanding of Islam by reading a variety of books, but the hardest has been the Qur’ān itself. It’s not an easy work to understand if…

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