Philosophy and Methodology

Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.

The central problem that confronts modern libertarian political theory is how to place limits on the number and kinds of intrusions in which government may engage — and how to ensure that it will confine itself to these limits.

War follows protection. Peace follows free trade. As David Ricardo said, “If you want peace, starve the government.”

Cultural Marxism is the philosophy that underlies today's trend toward crushing all dissenting opinions.

Economics is not like the physical sciences, and reasoning and analogies based on the physical sciences are often misleading in economics. 

The history that didn't happen can be just as interesting as the history that did.

Some propositions need only to be stated to become at once evident to the self, and the action axiom is just such a proposition.

Hunter Lewis presents an important view of morality, derived from Hume, Mises, and Hazlitt.

Eric Posner and Gen Weyl's diagnosis of economics is accurate, but their cure is worse than the disease.

Economics and language as fields of study overlap in ways that give economists a legitimate interest in both.