The series Downton Abbey, it’s just too long and too slow. I never wanted to commit. A 2-hour movie? That I can do. And so I did. I’m super happy about it too. Fancy house. Stuffy people. Complicated human drama. Accents that if you listen carefully reveal a class structure. It’s often hilarious too. It’s…
If you believe that fairness and what philosophers call “desert,” or deserving the benefits and harms we receive, are the most important features of a society, you’ll spend a lot of time being upset. My favorite statements of this problem are by F.A. Hayek and J.R.R. Tolkien. From Hayek (The Mirage of Social Justice, pp….
Social justice is one of those squishy terms that is not easy to define. One thing we know for certain: social justice is not the same thing as justice, an age-old idea that was the focus of such thinkers as Aristotle, Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, and Hume. (After all, if social justice meant the…
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) is today glorified by freedom lovers all around the world. The Austrian in a double sense—both as an Austrian citizen as well as a representative of the Austrian School of Economics, is mentioned in the same breath with the most prominent classical liberal economists of all time: right next to…
Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers! We need to get back on the Road to Freedom! In my book review of Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism edited by Thomas E. Woods, as it relates to The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek, I discuss the consequences of Statism, and share examples and…
One hundred and twenty years ago today, on May 8, 1899, Friedrich August von Hayek was born in Vienna. The 1974 Nobel Prize winner in economics would go on to live, as Peter Boettke puts it in his recent edition of Great Thinkers, quite the life. … one filled with up close witnessing of man’s inhumanity…
It is no secret to those of us within the liberty movement that Socialism is both immoral and unsustainable. But there is a growing movement in this country to abandon the eternal laws that govern the free market system in favor of economic ideas based on extortion and control that will never lead to a…