By Richard Gunderman
John Locke Bacon, Locke, and Newton—I consider them the three greatest men who have ever lived, without any exception. —Thomas Jefferson, 1789 Many people forget that John Locke was a physician, and many who know that he was a physician presume that his...
By Brent Orrell and David Veldran
Book Review of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, by Samuel Gregg.1 In The Next American Economy (2022), Samuel Gregg provides a refreshing defense of free markets, emphasizing the need to frame the case for econo...
By James Broughel
Book Review of Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life, by Emily A. Austin.1 The name Epicurus is often associated with indulgent hedonism. This stereotypical mischaracterization, which has found its way into pop culture and even into supermarket ...
By Arnold Kling
I will refer to these convictions as the Blank Slate: the idea that the human mind has no inherent structure and can be inscribed at will by society or ourselves. —Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature1. p. 2 "If your grandfat...
By Peter J. Boettke
James Buchanan This is Part II of a two-part essay: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Choice: Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Public Choice: Part II As mentioned in the previous essay, the rise of Politics, Philosophy, and Econo...
By Arnold Kling
Societies that have finished moulding themselves according to the patrilineal principle have indeed experienced a long and slow tragic cycle. After having invented everything—writing, the state... the first economic globalization, in the Bronze Age—they got bogg...
By Rosolino Candela
Economic analysis as a way of thinking can be understood as both a science and an art. As a science, economic analysis takes as its analytical starting point that human beings are striving to do the best that they can, given their particular circumstances of time and pl...
By Samuel Gregg
A Book Review of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, by Kevin Vallier. 1 Integralists are on the march. The ideas of a small group of mainly American but also British and Austrian Catholic scholars who identify them...
By D. Eric Schansberg
I am a pothole—an ordinary road hazard and a bane to all who drive. Messing with you and your vehicles is my vocation; it's what I do. My genealogy is compelling enough. I come from a common road-built with dirt, six to twelve inches of #2 gravel and #57 gravel with ...
By Peter J. Boettke
James Buchanan This is Part I of a two-part essay: The Past, Present, and Future of Public Choice: Part I The Past, Present, and Future of Public Choice: Part II Sixty years ago, the Public Choice Society was founded by Gordon Tullock and Jam...
By Jeremy Horpedahl
Improving standards of living are something that we have mostly taken for granted in modern America. In fact, failing to produce sufficient increases in national income is one of the surest ways for a President to lose reelection (even if they have little control over i...
By Arnold Kling
The new elites are in revolt against "Middle America," as they imagine it: a nation technologically backward, politically reactionary, repressive in its sexual morality, middlebrow in its tastes, smug and complacent, dull and dowdy. —Christopher Lasch, The ...
By Richard B. McKenzie
Walter Cronkite Fox News commentary host Tucker Carlson and CNN news anchor Don Lemon—both highly paid network stars for their audience ratings—were summarily fired during the same week in April 2023 for undisclosed reasons. Regardless of their professional and/o...
By Rosolino Candela
A Liberty Classics Book Review of Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution, by Ludwig von Mises. 1 How is social cooperation possible without command? The answer to this question requires that we have a conceptual framework (i.e....
By Arnold Kling
... despite spending billions of dollars supporting its infrastructure, and publishing untold thousands of white papers, the establishment Right has registered no clear gains and many clear losses. Much of the nation was conquered on its watch. ... In terms o...
By Walter Donway
Rather than breaking capitalism... A.G.I... is more likely to create a powerful... ally for capitalism's most destructive creed: neoliberalism. —Evgeny Morozov. The New York Times1 The New York Times for decades has been America's bellwether of coming po...