Living in rural America requires my wife and I to travel several hours to make a major shopping trip. About 3 or 4 times a year, we head down the […]
Tag: Philosophy
The Hume-Rousseau Affair
When David Hume learned in 1762 that Jean-Jacques Rousseau was interested in relocating to Britain, he got busy to make that happen. The two men first met in Paris in […]
Review of Edward Younkins, Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus
Few books are as loved and as hated as Atlas Shrugged. Exploring Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Magnum Opus is a collection of standalone essays by Edward W. Younkins, executive director […]
Liberalism Then and Now
Kenneth Minogue’s The Liberal Mind first appeared in the 1960s, an era when “the young and the radical in the Western world were in a restive condition.” As Minogue correctly […]
There’s No Such Thing as “Market Fundamentalism”
Zealots who want to force others to conform to their beliefs often exhibit a fundamentalist mindset. That is to say, they are utterly certain of the rectitude of their beliefs […]
When Diktats and Conscience Conflict
Grotius was a Dutchman, and he knew something about bad laws. He once escaped imprisonment by hiding in a chest of books, and then wrote some of his works in […]