Philosophy

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David Gordon

Elite higher education in the US often seems to be a caricature of itself. As David Gordon shows, Yale University‘s Jason Stanley has redefined fascism to include the nuclear family and reading the Classics. 

David Gordon

Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.

David Gordon

The political theorist Anthony de Jasay takes on the left‘s ideas of equality, and David Gordon is there to agree—and disagree. Jasay likens the left‘s view of equality to the Indian Rope Trick.

John Kennedy

While it is tempting to think of state power as being maintained by sheer force, it still needs a “theological” justification, be it secular or religious. The US state is no exception.

David Gordon

Almost 90 years later, Albert Jay Nock's Our Enemy the State remains a classic and definitive work on examining the state for what it is: a liberty-crushing behemoth. David Gordon takes another look at this important work.

David Gordon

David Gordon takes another look at Thomas Nagel's Equality and Partiality. While he finds some of Nagel's arguments appealing, they still are inferior to Murray Rothbard's systematic interpretation of natural rights.

Kgatlhiso Darius Leshaba

When great ones err, they often err greatly. Such was the case with Albert Einstein, who mastered quantum physics but whose view on economics were, well, unscientific.