Ben Johannsen

A Third View of the State

Political philosophy usually hands you two options for what the state actually is, and asks you to pick a side. The liberal tradition, running from Locke through the American founding to most modern minarchists, treats the state as a neutral […]

An Industrial Park from a Bloated Government

A kid is still on the swings when the first truck backs in. Nobody closed the gate, nobody posted a notice on the bulletin board by the restrooms — the crew just arrives, cones off the strip of brush along […]