Philosophy and Methodology

Yes, there are monopolies in the world, all of them created by government. Merging media moguls are not among them, says Ilana Mercer.

How a great advance in political theory became a justification for the all-controlling state. Review by Joseph Stromberg. 

Hit-in-the-head movies are usually pathetic. Some guy takes a fall and learns to see the world a new way, which invariably involves becoming more politically correct and marrying a feminist or some such. "Memento" is not to be confused with one of these. It is surely one of the most brilliant and innovative films to come along in years.

If there is a case to be made for this social theory, Professor Yeager makes it. In the end, however, the effort doesn't succeed. Review by Robert Murphy.

Tucker was the voice for individualist anarchism in the late 19th century, and J. William Lloyd was his follower. This essay is from the Lloyd papers, now part of the Mises Institute archives.

In ancient times, moderation meant eschewing vice and embracing virtue. Now it means doing whatever seems expedient. Tibor R. Machan explains.

For some, Popper is the most overrated intellectual of the century. For others, he is the overlooked genius. Rafe Champion, while correcting the new Popper biography, explains who the man was and what he did.

Why the family is irreplaceable and must be understood in terms other than incentives, costs, and benefits: a review of Jennifer Roback Morse's extraordinary new book.

We are continually told that democracies guard against war. But that view abstracts from the U.S. imperial experience. James Ostrowski compares the rhetoric to the reality.

Michael Prowse of the Financial Times was a Misesian. Then he read Durkheim and saw new light. Martin Masse explains why this now-famous conversion was wholly unnecessary.