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Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended...
What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.
The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the...
With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state...
“The conference featured not only a wide range of topics, but also a diverse group of participants—from those engaged in more strictly academic work...
The philosopher Jürgen Habermas died on March 14. He was the leading philosopher of the Frankfurt School, a hotbed of Marxism and critical theory.
The process of naturalization is a government-created “right” with no basis in property rights. In other words, there is no libertarian case for birthright...
For Rothbard – as for Locke – it is not the use of force that is disputable, but the use of force against peaceful...
In a world characterized by genuine uncertainty rather than mechanical predictability, analytic reasoning provides a form of epistemic certainty that empirical observation alone cannot...
To call Trump’s actions king-like is to greatly understate the problem. What we actually face is a massive, self-amplifying executive branch that makes deranged...
The process of naturalization is a government-created “right” with no basis in property rights. In other words, there is no libertarian case for birthright...
Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern Marxists have...
Paul Schroeder (1927–2020) was generally regarded as the greatest American diplomatic historian specializing in Europe: The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848.