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We Cannot Interpret Economic Data Unless We Know Economic Theory

Central BanksEconomic PolicyThe FedPhilosophy

09/15/2022Mises Media
Logical positivism holds that theory is irrelevant to the empirical results. It is the other way around; One cannot understand or interpret economic data until one has a working economic theory in place.
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Promoting Natural Rights Instead of Conservatism: Looking at Rothbard and Jaffa

DemocracyPhilosophyU.S. History

09/13/2022Mises Media
Both Murray Rothbard and Harry Jaffa began as men of the Right. However, Rothbard turned toward the view that individuals possess rights outside of the state; Jaffa turned toward conservatism.
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We Don't Believe You

PhilosophyPolitical Theory

08/20/2022Mises Media
Any political statement made today, by any politician or candidate, can be answered thus: "We don't believe you."
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Rastafarianism's Antistate Beginnings: It's More Than Just Bob Marley's Music

PhilosophyWorld History

08/07/2022Mises Media
Mention Rastafarianism and most likely reggae, dreadlocks, and Bob Marley come to mind. However, Rastafarianism helped downtrodden Jamaicans resist the oppressions of colonialism.
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Is Anarcho-Capitalism Incoherent?

Legal SystemPhilosophy

08/04/2022Friday Philosophy
Gregory Salmieri, defending a minimal state, asserts that a free market anarchy would be characterized by "war and realpolitik." That sounds more like what we have under state rule today.
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The Language Vandals

DemocracyPhilosophySocialism

07/31/2022Mises Media
Language is an institution in society. We need to protect it from vandals in the state-linguistic complex.
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Liberty versus "Relational Egalitarianism"

DemocracyLibertarianismLiberalismPhilosophy

07/30/2022Mises Media
Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."
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Was World War II the "Necessary War"?

PhilosophyWar and Foreign Policy

07/29/2022Friday Philosophy
Robert Kagan agrees that the World War II American interventionists were imperialistic but maintains that a form of imperialism based on American values was the proper policy aim then and remains so today.
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Critical Race Theory: Academic Malfeasance and Fraudulence

EducationLawPhilosophyProgressivism

07/26/2022Mises Media
CRT is what happens when methodological individualism is abandoned and replaced by “systems” and “structures” that apparently do everything while actual people do nothing.
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Liberty versus "Relational Egalitarianism"

PhilosophyPolitical Theory

07/22/2022Friday Philosophy
Egalitarian liberals think that basic liberties can be violated in the quest for equality and even that "the natural duty to promote justice straightforwardly implies a duty to establish states."
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