Philosophy and Methodology

“Intellectuals . . . seek neither to understand the world nor to change it, but to denounce it,” so wrote Raymond Aron (1983, p.

Perhaps everyone will agree that if we were all angels, no state would be necessary, and if angels were the governors, they would require neither i

As regards the views about probability of Ludwig von Mises, it is undeniably true that these display considerable nuance and that they can be consi

In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.

Classical liberalism arose at a time when Christian orthodoxy was still vibrant.

taken for granted.

Frank van Dun, in his article “Against Libertarian Legalism,” criticizes prior articles by N. Stephan Kinsella and me.

Randy Holcombe’s “Government: unnecessary but Inevitable” (2004) is an interesting and challenging, but ultimately fallacious, essay on

Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator.

Holcombe (2004) argued that government was inevitable. In Block (2005) I maintained that this institution was not unavoidable.