When the legal scholar Richard Posner labeled Critical Race Theory as having a “lunatic core,” he was echoing what Ludwig von Mises years before had written about polylogism. Unfortunately, CRT now dominates the nation‘s law school curriculum.
Having warned of the rise of national socialism and having fled the German army‘s march into Austria, Ludwig von Mises was in an excellent position to analyze Nazi economic doctrine.
Having warned of the rise of national socialism and having fled the German army's march into Austria, Ludwig von Mises was in an excellent position to analyze Nazi economic doctrine.
Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.
Many "social justice" advocates claim to appeal to a “higher law,” but they usually refuse to acknowledge economic laws because those laws stand in their way of creating the "just" society.
If New Yorkers wanted to help students by paying for their tuition, they would have already done so on their own.
“He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the growth of human freedom.
Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.
In today‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks back upon the ethical views of the late Alasdair MacIntyre. While praising MacIntyre‘s work, Dr. Gordon points out that he never abandoned his Marxist views of economics, making much of his philosophical thinking crucially deficient.
Part of bringing up young children is to tell them stories and accounts about people who did the right thing, and how they made life better for themselves and others. We can do the same with describing economic concepts, which don‘t have to be dry and boring.
