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Jason Kuznicki discusses how the problem of political authority has evolved over time from a classical liberal perspective.
Jason Kuznicki joins us again to discuss the problem of political authority. His new book, Technology and the End of Authority: What is Government For? , examines the relationship between the state and technology over time. Technological developments may make the state more or less necessary over time, which is a consideration that is relatively new in the history of political philosophy, but increasingly important.
What is the state? What is a nation? What is the difference between 'the state' and government? Why do libertarians oppose coercion? How has the state evolved over time? What is the 'bundle theory' of the state?
Technology and the End of Authority: What is Government For?, written by Jason Kuznicki
Max Weber's Theory of the Modern State, written by Andreas Anter
The Republic, written by Plato
Recognizing the State for What It Is, written by Aaron Ross Powell
Understanding the Modern State, written by David S. D'Amato
Private Lives and Public Education, written by Jason Kuznicki
Paul Matzko is a historian and a former research fellow for media studies at the Cato Institute. His book, The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement, was published by Oxford University Press. It has been described as “impressively researched and lucidly written” (Wall Street Journal), “provocative,” (New Republic), and “terrifically entertaining” (New York Journal of Books).
Jason Kuznicki was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the editor of Cato books and of Cato Unbound, the Cato Institute’s online journal of debate. His first book, Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For? (Palgrave, 2017) surveys western political theory from a libertarian perspective. Kuznicki was an assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty. He earned a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, where his work was offered both a Fulbright Fellowship and a Chateaubriand Prize.