The defense of government schooling, like government itself, is based on fallacies. In this article, I directly refute many of the main arguments for government schooling. Using argumentation ethics, all conceivable arguments are refuted, thereby eliminating any valid reason for its continuance. Volume 19, Number 2 (2005) Marks, Benjamin.
Volume 1, Article 18 (2009) Introduction This essay is intentionally one-sided. Almost all other essays by either defenders of capitalism (libertarians) or defenders of government (statists) are oppositely one-sided. They claim that capitalism’s voluntariness or government’s coerciveness mean that capitalism or government better fosters such
It’s cheap, compact, durable, and superior in many aspects to online and print publishing. In some circumstances it is the ultimate publishing medium. I’m talking about microfiche, of course. Microfiche are post-card size transparencies with print pages – up to 504 of them – demagnified on to it. They are then inserted into a microfiche reader,
“The international medical relief agency Médecins sans Frontiares is tracking down hundreds of thousands of donors worldwide to its Asian tsunami appeal and offering them their money back.” They received too much tsunami cash ! (See also this older article on the same.) What was the reason behind all that government
As part of a nationwide effort against the Australian government ending its enforcement of compulsory union fees, thousands of students across the country have taken to the streets in protest. They are obviously not students of simple logic, as their argument, in the words of the President of the National Union of Students, goes like this : “Let’s
All government intervention leads to unintended consequences. The government’s support of a “holiday” to plant trees is no different. Little does the government know what an excellent opportunity it is for the libertarian to plot its demise. Although covert and fairly long-term, a more sinister threat to government cannot be imagined. We should
Ross Gittins discusses a book by Matt Ridley called The Origins of Virtue . In it he shows that “trade predates the state.” Hardly a surprise to readers of this blog, but quite radical for the mainstream media. (Thanks to John Zube for bringing this article to my attention.) I have not yet read the Ridley book, but an Amazon.com review by Donald
I have been discussing the nature and truth of the proposition that humans act with a nominalist. I have not been able to respond to his criticism of the truth of synthetic a priori categories, ideas, concepts, etc. It seems to me to be perfectly valid criticism, but I am interested to hear what other people think. Mises says , “The a priori
Down under, in Australia, it is often thought that we are a dry country. What if I was to tell you that we have more rainfall than the United States! As the legendary Aussie, agriculture designer, P.A. Yeomans said: “Australia is not short of water on any comparable per capita basis.” However, “the incidence of rainfall is not very reliable.” At
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
