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Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However,...
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A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of...
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...
From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it...
Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been...
Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However,...
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
Ever since the Great Depression, most economists have claimed that the key to increasing economic growth is to lower unemployment. However, increasing the savings...
The Dutch Tulip Bulb Mania of the 1630s continues to fascinate, especially given the recent asset bubbles our economy has experienced. What caused this...
What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running...
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
This week, Dr. David Gordon reviews Ivan Eland’s A Balance of Titans. While admiring Eland’s call for less intervention, Dr. Gordon asks why the...
How best to present libertarian thinking? Libertarians should not depend just on logic, but also upon presenting libertarian ideals in a practical and useful...