Philosophy and Methodology

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.

The editor of the Wall Street Journal is thinking about the right issues--the ill-effects of the Federal Reserve policy--but he doesn't understand the underlying causes of the business cycle, says Christopher Westley.

Dinesh D'Souza's new book on the moral conundrum of success is one of the best popular treatments on the cultural meaning of prosperity to appear in many years. Reviewed by Jeffrey Tucker.

Wendy McElroy decries the EU's attempt to legislate equal rights for women: it will bring about a new form of despotism, she warns.

He ran a business, paid the market wage, and kept his contracts. What's not to like?

Politics means taking from some and giving to others, says Tom DiLorenzo; only the market economy can truly reveal the will of the people. 

When, precisely, did a foreign power ever threaten to take it away? All threats to voting rights have been domestic, write Joseph Stromberg.

The argument that democracy is better than revolution because it provides for "peaceful change" doesn't hold up to logical scrutiny, writes Murray Rothbard in this unpublished piece (1959)

Ronald Dworkin gets off to a poor start, but things are not so bad as they first appear. He tells us that equality is the sovereign political virtue. What could be more anti-libertarian?