Human Choice and Historical Inevitability
This paper by Antony Flew offers a critique of Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism as well as E.H.
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Efficiency vs Ethics: Which is the Proper Decision Criterion in Law Cases?
Ever since economists undertook an economic analysis of the law there has waged the debate as to the proper criterion to use in deciding law cases.
Ambivalence, Ambiguity, and Contradiction Garrisonian Abolitionists and Nonviolence
Historian Alice Felt Tyler once used the expression “Freedom’s Ferment” to characterize the antebellum period in American history
“Let the People See” Reflections on Ethnoreligious Forces in American Politics
In a long editorial entitled “Let the People See,” which appeared in the New York Tribune in 1852, Horace Greeley, the great e
Ayn Rand and the Is-Ought Problem
Although ethical systems may be divided into those which claim to be objective and those which freely acknowledge their own subjectivity, a special
In Defense of Natural End Ethics: A Rejoinder to O’Neil and Osterfeld
Patrick M. O’Neil and David Osterfeld have offered some criticisms of our natural end interpretation and defense of Rand’s ethics.
White Male Privilege? A Social Construct for Political Oppression
Each day in America, white males face government-sponsored discrimination.
Concept of “Nature” in Liberal Political Thought
The connection between a theory of human nature and normative political theory is a puzzling one.
Immigration Into A Free Society
What should be a free country’s policy toward foreigners who would wish to live there?
From Theory to Reality: Barriers Confronting Libertarians
Classical Liberalism, especially of the Austrian inclination, and Libertarianism are by now recognized as the most influential research traditions
