Philosophy and Methodology

This year's political campaigns highlight at least one positive trend: the "best and brightest," who nearly wrecked us, are no longer wasting their talents serving the state. 

In the last several decades, step by step, the system has become Diocletianized.

War and methodological empiricism are freedom's greatest enemies. Both must be soundly rejected to achieve the classical ideal of liberty. 

I approached this book with considerable sympathy. Murray Rothbard rested much of his Ethics of Liberty on the foundation of Thomist natural law. 

It's an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.

The free economy has liberated the human spirit to produce a level of prosperity unknown in the history of the world. (Opinion column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The really terrifying prospect is having to live a life entirely "naturally." 

Usually I review a book by getting into the swing of things at once. What is the book's central thesis? and (if possible) How is that thesis mistaken? are the questions that occupy me. 

Has capitalism triumphed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and, if so, what type? (A news item from the Wall Street Journal)

President Clinton has been itching to find some way to make government a major player on the Internet. (Article by Tibor Machan)