The American Declaration of Independence
….in Kurdish….
Political Theory
Representatives? Not Really….They’re “Fixers”
In today’s New York Times, this interesting story about how one Senator (the presumptive GOP presidential nominee) has done favors for a constituent, “A Developer, His Deals and His Ties…
Challenges of Democratization
A short essay I wrote some years ago on “Challenges of Democratization” was just published on News.Gooya.com, a major Persian-language news site. It had earlier appeared in Arabic and Azeri….
Just Plain Dumb
I just came across an especially strange argument (and that’s saying something) against going to court to vindicate the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms in the…
Democracy, Liberty, Limited Government, Foreign Policy
The Northwestern University Law Review (Issue 102:1 (Winter 2008) has published my oral remarks during the 2006 Federalist Society panel/debate on “Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Uneasy Cousins?” Judge A….
My Discussion/Debate on the Second Amendment with Walter Dellinger
Click here and then select the right video: “March 14, 2008: Tom Palmer talks about the DC gun ban on Reporter’s Roundtable”
Property in One’s Labor
While doing a little research to assist my Russian colleagues with the Cato.ru essay contest and summer school, both of which focus on property and freedom, I found again this…
Diminished Expectations for Politics
Tyler Cowen in today’s New York Times, “Itâ??s an Election, Not a Revolution” Rather than being cynics, we should be realists. Democracy is reasonably good at some things: pushing scoundrels…
Commodification as a Necessary Byproduct of Marxism
“Do you want our Chinese women?” Mao asked. “We can give you 10 million.” “It is such a novel proposition,” Kissinger replied in his discussion with Mao in Beijing. “We…
Can Government Be Limited?
A Deep Thinker Anthony de Jasay in Cato Unbound: “Government, Bound or Unbound?” Jasay is one of the most interesting and challenging writers active today. His books are always an…