The ongoing flirtation of right-leaning writers with people such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, Ragnar Redbeard, and H.P. Lovecraft raises the
Do people who believe that torture is wrong under all circumstances arrive at this conclusion after a painstaking analysis of all the scenarios in which
The New York Post recently posted an interesting personal account of writer and cryonics activist Charles Platt about working conditions and company policies at Wal-Mart.
In a blog post for the New Republic Alan Wolfe writes: “What my critics call modern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of
John Gray reviews Dominic Raab’s The Assault on Liberty: What went Wrong with Rights and makes an important observation: Ironically, while he astutely criticizes the
The philosopher Karl Popper has published on a wide variety of subjects but his most lasting contribution is his answer to the problem of induction by drawing
Karl Popper is known for his influential contributions to the philosophy of science and critical rationalism. Unfortunately, his attempt to apply critical rationalism to political
A recent trend in progressive thinking is to accuse opponents of “market fundamentalism.” That seems to be a smart rhetorical tactic because a) it rides
In the introduction to his collection of writings, Socratic Puzzles, Robert Nozick writes that he never responded to the sizable literature on Anarchy, State and
“As the leader of a think tank dedicated to public policy, I would love it if Americans were as obsessed with policy as I am.”