Philosophy and Methodology

Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (min

In attempting to promote the libertarian viewpoint, particularly in its anarchic variety, one is faced with a variety of problems.

Libertarianism has been widely misunderstood, and the present essay under review is no exception.

Frank van Dun, in his learned essay on the Hobbesian roots of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UD), passed by the UN General Assembly in

What follows is a comment on some of the arguments on intellectual property and blackmail presented respectively by N.

Pioneering sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a prolific and astute historian of the early American republic. His work is informed by both his classical liberalism and his understanding of economics. He authored eight major works including major biographies and thematic studies concentrating on the vital subjects of currency, banking, business cycles, foreign trade, protectionism, and democratic politics. This article discusses Classical Liberalism and Sumner's academic philosophy.

Dialogue between the so-called “capitalist” and so-called “socialist” branches of free-market libertarianism has declined.

In this article, Richard Sharvy discusses Plato’s Euthyphro.

Volume 21, Number 3 (2007)

Casual acquaintance with Ayn Rand’s ideas often involves the assumption that Rand would approve of Oliver Stone’s character Gordon Gekko (of “greed

In this article I will revise Mises and Hayek’s thesis about the proper categories of economics.