But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: cha….

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be jus….

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal govern….

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with math….

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to conse….

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own c….

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery..

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud..

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, ser….

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of ….

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation..

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is ….

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us,….

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before i….

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking f….

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petroch….

Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking fa….

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive….

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Indiv….

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by ….

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie..