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Mill at a Loss

ProgressivismPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog02/24/2023

Murray Rothbard was no fan of John Stuart Mill's philosophy and neither is Philip Kitcher. However, there is a huge divide in how Rothbard and Kitcher view Mill.

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Defining a Good: The Intersection of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Carl Menger

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and MethodologySubjectivismValue and Exchange

Blog01/02/2023

The roots of Austrian economics go back to the great theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose view of what constitutes a good was a prototype of Menger's pathbreaking theory of the good.

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Ethics for Inhumans

PhilosophyPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog12/30/2022

Philosopher William MacAskill of Oxford University is calling for "Effective Altruism" as a way to deal with long-term future issues. Reviewer David Gordon finds flaws in MacAskill's moral calculations.

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R.G. Collingwood on the Collapse of Civilization

World HistoryPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog12/23/2022

Why do societies implode into a mass of statism and tyranny? David Gordon finds some answers with philosopher R.G. Collingwood.

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The Hardheaded Thought of Ludwig von Mises: Ever Attacked and Ever Triumphant

SocialismAustrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Responding to an attack on Ludwig von Mises in the socialist publication Jacobin, Professor Wiśniewski corrects the errors and sets the record straight.

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The Front Lines of the Language Wars

LiberalismPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog10/04/2022

Language is at the front lines of the battle over institutions.

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A Robinson Crusoe-Based Sociology of Law

LawProperty RightsPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog08/02/2022

How can people deal with conflicts in a peaceful and mutually agreeable way? Mises, Hoppe, and Robinson Crusoe himself point the way.

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The Language Vandals

PhilosophyPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog07/20/2022

Language is an institution in society. We need to protect it from vandals in the state-linguistic complex.

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Libertarian Law by Democratic Means: A Method for Conflict Resolution

LawPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog07/16/2022

What is libertarian law and how does it function? Ludwig von Mises answered some of those questions and helped chart a path to achieving such a state of affairs.

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Civil Society and Counterrevolution against Progressivism

PhilosophyProgressivismWorld HistoryPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog07/06/2022

"Repealing the twentieth century" sounds like madness to many. Yet the progressivism that came from that century will be the death knell of civilization if not stopped.

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