The public-choice theorists would have us believe that nobody ever gets involved in governments or the political arena out of a desire to accomplish public goals.... Needless to say, the notion that citizens would voluntarily band together to fight injustice and poverty in faraway parts of the world is incomprehensible to this kind of thinking. This perhaps explains the frequent attempt to dismiss those in the anti-globalization movement as nothing more than a group of self-seeking opportunists - as if there is some kind of money to be made in championing debt elimination for the Third World.

Private courier companies are fine to handle the lucrative parts of the [postal] business. But they have little interest in servicing remote communities, so th…

Utterly left out of Tax Freedom Day [a holiday marking how many days an average person must work before his or her annual taxes are paid off] is any notion tha…

Despite loud complaints from members of the financial elite about high tax levels, it's interesting to note that they still manage to live in the finest houses…

'When I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.'

It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Material force can only be overthrown by material force, but theory itself becomes …

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.