Carl Schmitt and Murray Rothbard
Do individual rights cease to exist in emergencies or are they only temporarily frozen? Does anyone have the right to decide when there's an emergency—and when these rights disappear?
Do individual rights cease to exist in emergencies or are they only temporarily frozen? Does anyone have the right to decide when there's an emergency—and when these rights disappear?
Murray Rothbard’s criticism of Marxism is often misunderstood.
Capitalism is often blamed for the effects of policies that aren't capitalism. This is why we need a better definition of capitalism.
An obvious criticism of stakeholder theory is that the key notion of the theory is undefined. Who counts as a “stakeholder”?
The nonaggression principle and negative freedom are not the same thing. Isaiah Berlin's work shows the key difference between them.
Acton not only condemns absolute monarchy but unlimited majority rule as well. If anything, majority rule is worse, because it is much harder to resist.
Can natural resources be appropriated but still subject to a rental tax?
Some oppose the free market because it allows them to make immoral choices. How can promarket people respond to this critique without relying on their value system?
A philosopher has recently argued for the abolition of the Second Amendment, but he seemingly does this using the premises of the nonaggression principle.
A "good" education consists of learning how to spot "trick questions" that lead us astray from clear thinking. We often see that every "free lunch" offered by politicians involves at least one trick question.