Philosophy and Methodology
Should the Church Wave the Flag?
We live in times of hyper-nationalism, war, and all-intrusive statism that the Church is called to resist in favor of truth, beauty, and true salvation.
Monopoly Prices (Prices, Part 2)
On a competitive market there is no such thing as a price policy of the sellers. They have no alternative other than to sell as much as they can at the highest price offered to them.
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, by Paul A. Rahe
Paul Rahe's outstanding book can be considered an extended commentary on a famous passage in Tocqueville's Democracy in America:
IX. The Role of Ideas
Reason is man's particular and characteristic feature. "The Role of Ideas," Chapter IX of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises.
What Changes and What Does Not
The reversion in this century to ever-greater statism threatens to plunge us back to the barbarism of the ancient past.