Philosophy and Methodology

Man does not operate based on a "utility function," but by making discrete, unpredictable decisions when faced with a choice, writes Gene Callahan.

The habits of empire are a bad fit with U.S. ideals, institutions, and love of liberty: a manifesto by Jon Basil Utley. 

Richard Rorty is a man possessed. Like his grandfather, the Social Gospel theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, he knows what ails the world and how we may ascend to the secular equivalent of paradise. 

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.

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.

Ludwig von Mises wrote that the primary moral and professional obligation of an economist is to tell the truth. 

How to counter the attack on junk food? Not through tortured reasoning but with a forthright defense of consumer freedom.
 

Walter Block decries the replacement of these good-old terms with "Wetlands" and "Rainforests"

A kids' movie with great animation turns out to be a sneaky political parable in defense of social democracy.

Several new papers on Mises exhibit fundamental misunderstandings of key points of Mises's  epistemology, starting with a paper by experimental economist Vernon Smith.