Philosophy and Methodology

Why be libertarian, anyway? By this we mean: what’s the point of the whole thing?

Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States.

The recent activities of the Passport Office of the State Department have recently made headlines in the press.

If there was anything that characterized the Old Left it was adulation of labor unions and of the process by which the government has created, main

Fifty years ago, on Easter Monday, April 25, 1916, began the glorious Irish Revolution, a revolution that was to end by sweeping away a monstrous r

The lack of revolutions, even in highly-taxed societies points to the possibility that many are willing to tolerate rather high taxation rates, wri

Sociologists seek a profundity and seriousness in their work that belies the constraints entailed in any consistent theoretical perspective. Switching implicitly, and perhaps unconsciously, from one paradigm to another provides an illusion of scope

It is a rare individual who is able to draw from many disparate traditions in economic thought and combine these into a coherent research program. 

The economics profession has attempted to achieve the degree of success in understanding, explaining, and predicting events in the social world that physicists and engineers have achieved

Nonetheless, Rothbard and Mises have been criticized by Nozick (1977) and Caplan (1999), for inconsistency in admitting the concept of indifference into economic analysis after all, even if only indirectly.