Philosophy

Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself.

Neo-Calvinist economic thought claims that prices and private property cause scarcity. However, they provide no methodology for their claims.

Having given a harsh review to Leonard Peikoff’s Ominous Parallels four decades ago, David Gordon revisits the book.

No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.

The roots of Austrian economics go back to the great theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose view of what constitutes a good was a prototype of Menger's pathbreaking theory of the good.

While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.

Yuval Noah Harari, who teaches history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, denies that free will exists. However, to deny free will is to deny human action itself.

University of Chicago professor Martha C. Nussbaum wants to save the world by preventing animals from eating each other in the wild. David Gordon (after pulling himself off the floor) comments on her proposal.

Modern progressive governance claims it has science on its side. Hayek's Nobel speech put holes in that viewpoint.

Philosopher William MacAskill of Oxford University is calling for "Effective Altruism" as a way to deal with long-term future issues. Reviewer David Gordon finds flaws in MacAskill's moral calculations.