Political Theory


The Perils of Revisiting “Flawed Privatizations”

In a column in the Washington Post (requires simple registration), Anders Aslund points out what goes wrong when even rigged privatizations are undone or called into question: property rights generally…

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The Perils of Revisiting “Flawed Privatizations”

In a column in the Washington Post (requires simple registration), Anders Aslund points out what goes wrong when even rigged privatizations are undone or called into question: property rights generally…

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The Perils of Revisiting “Flawed Privatizations”

In a column in the Washington Post (requires simple registration), Anders Aslund points out what goes wrong when even rigged privatizations are undone or called into question: property rights generally…

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On Strike Against Solidarity!

The French government, responding to the fact that two years ago French people let approximately 15,000 mainly elderly people die in their homes of heat exhaustion (many because they didn’t…

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Some Parallels Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism

Davids Medienkritik has a helpful followup to the story noted below. I had an extensive interview with a German reporter today on the topic of “capitalism.” It was occasioned by…

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Federalism, Anyone?

David Boaz has a chilling column on Foxnews for Friday the 13th: “No Federalism on the Right.”

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So-Do-My Friends and Neighbors

Waiting for a Viable Policy…. Paul Varnell, the independent philosopher, columnist, and all round smart guy, has a very interesting essay on “Sodomy and the Military” over at the Independent…

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A Test Case for Popular Justice

At the conference I’m attending, we’re looking at historical cases (and fictional ones, relying on the excellent western films “The Ox-Bow Incident” and “Unforgiven”) of when the state has failed…

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More on Justice Without the State

Ã?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¾hingvellir, site of the meeting of the AlÃ?Â??Ã?Â?Ã?¾ing “With laws shall our land be built up but with lawlessness laid waste.” — Njal, chapter 70, Njal’s Saga I’m at a…

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Some Notes on Iraq [Now with Papers]

I had several goals for my trip to Iraq. To one degree or another, all were fulfilled, but all will also require additional follow-up. First, I wanted to meet classical…

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