Senator Hawley wants government regulation of social media, and he insists that social media companies are somehow controlling and manipulating people. But Hawley is mistaken. You have free will even when using Facebook. Original Article: “ Social Media’s Algorithms Aren’t Really Controlling You “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
It is no surprise that the corporate media tends to showcase and honor experts whose views tend to reflect the views of media pundits and editors themselves. The idea that the public might prefer other experts leaves these pundits in dismay. Original Article: “ America’s Corporate Thought Police “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
Not only could the state use the UBI as an instrument of social control; we have every reason to think those in charge of the state would exercise their power for bad motives. Original Article: “ UBI and the Road to Serfdom “ This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
Those of us who support a noninterventionist foreign policy find in Murray Rothbard’s work an inexhaustible source of facts and arguments. Mises, by contrast, usually doesn’t comment on foreign policy issues. Sometimes he did, but you won’t find in his published writings his views on the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Arab-Israeli conflict. I’d like
In a famous lecture delivered in August 1819, the great classical liberal Benjamin Constant contrasts the ancient and modern conceptions of liberty. By the “ancient conception,” Constant means the liberty of the citizens of a state to rule themselves, as opposed to rule by despots, whether foreign or domestic. He has primarily in mind the ancient
La famosa «ética de la argumentación» de Hans Hoppe ha generado una gran atención entre los libertarios, y con razón. ¿Ha producido Hoppe una demostración irrefutable de que las personas tienen derechos libertarios? No me propongo contribuir a esa discusión en esta ocasión. Más bien, me gustaría centrarme en una cuestión preliminar. Se trata de
Eric Mack es uno de los principales filósofos contemporáneos partidarios del libre mercado. Durante muchos años se ha ocupado de la disputa «anarquista-minarquista». En un «estado de naturaleza» en el que los derechos de las personas a la autodeterminación y a la propiedad privada están generalmente reconocidos, a la mayoría de los individuos les
Roger Crisp es un filósofo bien considerado y ha escrito importantes libros sobre la teoría ética y su historia, centrándose en los utilitaristas británicos. Pero en un artículo que apareció en el New Statesman el 10 de agosto, presenta uno de los argumentos más extraños que he leído. Crisp nos pide que imaginemos que un asteroide está a punto de
No les sorprenderá saber que mi respuesta es no, pero lo que me gustaría discutir en la columna de esta semana es el argumento de un eminente filósofo de que deberíamos hacerlo. Robert Hanna es una autoridad en Kant (los lectores objetivistas ya verán los problemas que se avecinan), y en un artículo publicado en línea este mes, « Gun Crazy: A
El historiador Quinn Slobodian nos presenta en su artículo « Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration, and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism », Contemporary European History (2018), una sorprendente interpretación de Ludwig von Mises. Según Slobodian, Mises era un racista que estaba a favor de las guerras coloniales de
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