What is the State?

September 9, 2022 – Ryan McMaken …… Monarchs created Europe’s modern states, but lost the ability to control them. Then, having grown beyond the tools that helped monarchs turn themselves into absolute rulers, “the state acquired a life of its own.” Continue reading →

October 28, 2019 – Andrew Kern …… The given explanations for “implied consent” to government rule would never pass muster if applied to any private-sector organization. Continue reading →

September 13, 2019 – Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. …… There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market. Another point that is just as telling: no state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. Continue reading →

August 21, 2019 – Dusty Wunderlich …… On a recent mountain-climbing trip to Russia, it became very clear how nation and state are two very different ideas. Most everyone I encountered was proud of his nation. Few had much good to stay about their states. Continue reading →