Philosophy and Methodology

Regulators and their political backers believe that only government can protect people from the risks of everyday life. Adam Young explains.

Death duties loot the productive, destroy capital, and bring about a damaging social upheaval. Hans Sennholz explains.
 

To those who know Leland Yeager's work, it will come as no surprise that he has given us an illuminating book, informed by careful thought and wide-ranging scholarship. 

James Ostrowski examines the Supreme Court ruling against medical marijuana: an accurate interpretation of a nauseating law.

Now, the greens are denouncing SUVs for their expense. But Karen De Coster unearths their real concern: not economy but control.

Yes, there are monopolies in the world, all of them created by government. Merging media moguls are not among them, says Ilana Mercer.

How a great advance in political theory became a justification for the all-controlling state. Review by Joseph Stromberg. 

Hit-in-the-head movies are usually pathetic. Some guy takes a fall and learns to see the world a new way, which invariably involves becoming more politically correct and marrying a feminist or some such. "Memento" is not to be confused with one of these. It is surely one of the most brilliant and innovative films to come along in years.

If there is a case to be made for this social theory, Professor Yeager makes it. In the end, however, the effort doesn't succeed. Review by Robert Murphy.

Tucker was the voice for individualist anarchism in the late 19th century, and J. William Lloyd was his follower. This essay is from the Lloyd papers, now part of the Mises Institute archives.