David Gordon

David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He was educated at UCLA, where he earned his PhD in history. He is the author of Resurrecting Economics, An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, An Austro-Libertarian View (three volumes), and Resurrecting Marx. He is also editor of Secession, State, and Liberty and coeditor of H.B. Acton’s Morals of Markets and Other Essays.

Dr. Gordon is the editor of the Mises Review and the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a contributor to such journals as Analysis, the International Philosophic Quarterly, the Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.

Articles

Jürgen Habermas: The Philosopher as Marxist Propagandist

07/11/2025 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

When does philosophy degenerate into simple propaganda? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the writings of Jürgen Habermas, concluding that much of what Habermas said was little more than ginned-up Marxism.

An Excellent Casey for Anarchism

07/05/2025 Mises Wire David Gordon

Has anyone besides Murray Rothbard made a compelling case for state-free anarchy? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon extols Libertarian Anarchy by Gerard Casey, which he says provides excellent arguments for doing away with the state.

Frank Meyer about Your Views

06/27/2025 Friday Philosophy David Gordon

Although Frank Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often agreed on the current state of affairs. That is how Dr. David Gordon remembers him in today‘s Friday Philosophy.

Publications

Deneen’s Common Good Statism

09/05/2023 David Gordon

It’s likely that many readers of The Austrian support the free market and also support “traditional” social values, but in Patrick Deneen’s opinion, this is an unstable amalgam. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, thinks that the

Review: Slouching Towards Utopia

07/13/2023 David Gordon

[ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian economics

Lost Continetti

07/22/2022 David Gordon

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism By Matthew Continetti Basic Books, 2022 503 pp. Why should readers of The Austrian be interested in this book? At first glance, it appears that we shouldn’t be. Though the history of American

Media

Jürgen Habermas: The Philosopher as Marxist Propagandist

07/11/2025 David Gordon

When does philosophy degenerate into simple propaganda? In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the writings of Jürgen Habermas, concluding that much of what Habermas said was little more than ginned up Marxism.

An Excellent Casey for Anarchism

07/06/2025 David Gordon

Truth or Consequences

05/27/2025 David Gordon

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is the enslavement of Native Americans. Many of them were shipped to plantations in the Caribbean where they were worked to death.