Philosophy and Methodology

Hayek’s theory of knowledge cautions against grand designs based on the alleged expertise of a select class of people. 

Steven Pinker’s attempt to rescue the Whig theory of history and demonstrate that we live in the best of all worlds turns out to be an utter failure.

The state is not "us." Even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.

Representation is a fig leaf that is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that even in our sophisticated modern states, some rule and others are ruled.

Tyranny does not rest on force but on submission.

Some Marxists have been quite explicit about their desire to apply the Marxist idea of exploitation to nearly every facet of society.

Gazing at the data cannot assist an analyst in establishing causes in the world of economics.

The Nobel committee this year showed that it has embraced clever economic modeling as a replacement for scientific progress.

For the positivist, a man is a machine like an automobile, and the positivist denies to his fellow men the faculty of choosing ends and the means to attain these ends.

Austrian economics in particular provides the historian with a theoretical apparatus that equips him with the ability to make disembodied statistics tell a coherent and accurate story.