On July 4, Will You be Celebrating the Founders or the Status Quo?
On this July 4, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. However, what are people really celebrating, freedom or a militaristic regime?
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On July 4, Will You be Celebrating the Founders or the Status Quo?
On this July 4, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. However, what are people really celebrating, freedom or a militaristic regime?
From Scholasticism to Enlightenment Liberalism
The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages.
From Scholasticism to Enlightenment Liberalism
The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent that have shaped thinking throughout the ages.
Marxism and the Manipulation of Man
The question is not plan or no plan. Everyone plans. The question is whose plan—and what happens to yours when it conflicts with the planner's. Mises traces the path from Marx to Comte to the social engineers, and shows why the destination is always the same.
Rothbard on The Calculus of Consent
In today's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits The Calculus of Consent by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, considered a "classic" by mainstream economists. Murray Rothbard, however, dissented loudly.
Magnifica Humanitas, AI, and the State
Pope Leo’s recent encyclical on Artificial Intelligence makes some good points but also has weaknesses. Ulrich Fromy explains.
How American Progressives Influenced Hitler
Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not only created social strife in the US, but also was exported to Germany, where the Nazis embraced it.
Why Thales Still Matters
When Thales of Miletus asked what underlying principle governed the cosmos, he inaugurated something far greater than a theory about nature. He introduced the conviction that reality possesses an intelligible order accessible to human reason.
How American Progressives Influenced Hitler
Despite attempts to whitewash its past, progressivism was a poisonous ideology from the beginning. One of its worst legacies is eugenics, which not only created social strife in the US, but also was exported to Germany, where the Nazis embraced it.
