Traditions

The major political traditions on their own terms: classical liberalism, conservatism, progressivism, libertarianism, populism, socialism.

Locke, Smith, and Mill. Consent, property, and limited government.

Burke, Kirk, and the case for inherited order over abstract design.

Croly, Wilson, and Dewey. Expertise, administration, and the living state.

Hayek, Friedman, and Nozick. The minimal state and spontaneous order.

The people against the elite, in its American forms, left and right.

Common ownership, planning, and the critique of market society.

Polis

Caleb Welsh · Politics & the Founding