Philosophy and Methodology

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

The following edited comments are excerpted from a recent email discussion with Walter Block and one of his correspondents, a Philosophy Professor

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from t

I don’t mean to pick on the US Postal Service, but I must admit to a strong (but not yet clinical) obsession with monopolies — especially tho

Most years, the millions of last minute tax filers make April 15 National Procrastination Day.

F.A. Hayek is known for making a number of important contributions to economics and social thought. If one had to identify a single concept that captures the thrust of Hayek’s intellectual project it would be “spontaneous order.”

Martha Nussbaum’s Frontiers of Justice is one of the oddest books I have ever reviewed. Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher, and she raises some issues that are well worth our consideration; 

David Schmidtz means the title of his outstanding book literally. He does not present a tightly integrated theory of justice; rather his "contextual functionalism . . .