Philosophy and Methodology

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. 

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.

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.  

The American founders struggled for liberty against grasping government officials. But the despotism of their day was nothing compared with our own. 

Walter Block decries statists who distort the meaning of words, and also those who kowtow to their politically correct agenda.