Philosophy and Methodology

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Spencer Jurkiewicz

The concept of human rights has been corrupted by socialists and welfarists. That is why we need to look to thinkers like Murray Rothbard and others who laid out theories based upon natural rights and property rights.

Wanjiru Njoya

The decolonization movement seeks to destroy both economics and science, all in the name of social justice. In the end, however, what they get is not justice and certainly not order, but rather chaos, and deadly chaos at that.

Frank Shostak

Mainstream economists insist that data alone can explain economic events, permitting them to test economic theories. In truth, without sound theory, data is meaningless.

Wanjiru Njoya

Contra critical theorists, who claim human reason is nothing more than a social construct, reason is both understandable and universal. We cannot abandon it, for if we do, we abandon liberty itself.

David Gordon

Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz believes that the path to freedom is . . . less freedom. Of course, he doesn’t package his advocacy of socialism as the diminishing of freedom but rather as expanding freedom by restraining economic freedom.

Wanjiru Njoya

The watchword in higher education today is decolonization, which depends upon what Ludwig von Mises called racial polylogism. Mises understood that polylogism undermines the very foundations of scientific thought.