Philosophy and Methodology

So it turns out that VA Tech killer shouldn’t have owned

ROCKWELL: The biggest strategic error is collaborating with the powers that be, as if the people in charge –those consumed by what St Augustine called "the lust to rule" –can be convinced by libertarian arguments. This isn't going to work. We need to come to terms with the fact that we are ultimately a revolutionary movement.

Newcomb’s Paradox is Not a Paradox, by Matt Beller (U.S. SEC)

What guarantee do we have that the people who run the state will be less evil than those who are run by the state?

From the movie review “Casualties of China’s Transformed Economy&#82

This "greatest benefit" to the least advantaged is doubly meaningless, since the only society that would qualify as just is one in which the identity of the least advantaged is irrelevant.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Je

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Je

Sometimes it takes the odd event to allow two unrelated thoughts to become synthesis.

While I have not been able to slog through Ayn Rand’s “magnum opus,” perhaps adult worker bees have as scientists try to explain