Philosophy and Methodology

Presented to Dr. Brad Birzer’s seminar on “American Order and Disorder,” Hillsdale College, on 9 February 2005.

Have you ever wondered why power plugs have the shape they do?

Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.

Serious thinkers have known for centuries that society is a complex, spontaneous order, which cannot be centrally directed at gunpoint.

Opportunity cost is the proper economic basis for specialization and trade in resources. Opportunity cost is the highest value you give up when you make a choice. It was Confederate government policy that caused misallocations on the part of the South, making it inefficient and wasteful. A few of those bad policies were: drafting soldiers, confiscating resources, and monetary inflation.

I was sitting in my wife’s intro to philosophy class a while ago, and the professor was reviewing their first exam.

Hans Sennholz discusses the many proposals to reform the program and save it from its demographic failings. Demographics, he argues, are a distraction from the core problems.

Recorded at Mises University 2004.

Recorded at Mises University 2004.

Recorded 10/15/2004 at Radical Scholarship: The Guerrilla Movement for Liberty.