Philosophy

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Barro's reasoning and finds it sound.

Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the demands of philosopher Peter Unger, namely, that we be forced to give up our wealth to fund a world welfare state. Suffice it to say that Dr. Gordon is not impressed with Unger’s arguments.

While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical Daoist thinkers wrote about state power in a way that would seem to channel none other than Murray Rothbard.

The term “States’ Rights” is interpreted in many ways, but it refers to the separation of powers between states and the federal government. It is seen as one tool used to limit the powers of the central state.

Vivek Ramaswamy promotes a fictional version of American history in which a handful of people created America and that culture and religion are canceled out by an ideological "creed." In truth, the American nation and the American state are two different things. 

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory and finds much to like.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.”