Philosophy and Methodology

From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Maybe some tax expert can set me straight on the following assumptions, but from what I can tell, federal income tax law technically should make it

The idea that people can provide things for themselves either individually or through the family frightens the state. It delegitimizes its role.

On occasion I’ll see someone try to smooth over the Mises-Hayek “dehomogenization” debate which argued whether and to what extent

Sometimes we’re lucky. Sometimes simple, everyday occurrences suggest solutions.

Or: We’re from the government—and we’re here to help.

The roots of America’s governance problems are continually discussed, particularly on July 4.

In this short article, Israel Kirzner makes a distinction between i

It's the code that Isabel Paterson, the great twentieth-century libertarian, had in mind when she said that modern ideas of freedom are dependent on "the axiom of liberty" embedded in Christian teaching.

A doctrine may be modern, fashionable, generally accepted and nevertheless detrimental to human society, civilization and survival. The first step to every attempt to investigate social, political, and economic changes has to be the study of the changes of the ideas which guided men to bring about these changes. The theories which build up or disintegrate social cooperation can only be proved or refuted by pure reasoning. They cannot be exposed to the simple examination of the experiment.