Against the Idols of the Age, by David Stone
The present anthology of David Stove articles is an excellent book throughout, but I should like first to concentrate on a few pages that make a decisive contribution to contemporary thought.
Philosophy and Methodology
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Declaration Confusion
Pundits and politicians, following innumerable scholars for 150 years, will twist and mangle the text to discern some other meaning from the document besides the obvious one.
Oracle, Microsoft, & Truth
Ludwig von Mises wrote that the primary moral and professional obligation of an economist is to tell the truth.
Good Enough for Me
How to counter the attack on junk food? Not through tortured reasoning but with a forthright defense of consumer freedom.
Of Swamps and Jungles
Walter Block decries the replacement of these good-old terms with "Wetlands" and "Rainforests"
The Dinosaur Collective
A kids' movie with great animation turns out to be a sneaky political parable in defense of social democracy.
Meaning and Human Action
Several new papers on Mises exhibit fundamental misunderstandings of key points of Mises's epistemology, starting with a paper by experimental economist Vernon Smith.
Word Watch
How statism pollutes our language in ways we don't always recognize. This is Walter Block's third essay in a great series on this topic.
Tax Slavery
The American founders struggled for liberty against grasping government officials. But the despotism of their day was nothing compared with our own.
Taking Back the Language
Walter Block decries statists who distort the meaning of words, and also those who kowtow to their politically correct agenda.
