Philosophy

How Arrogance Threatens Freedom

“Those who demand special treatment from impersonal, anonymous, and uncontrollable processes lack humility. They want credit for their achievements, and they blame others when their goals fall short. With such arrogance, freedom is indeed impossible.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Why Intellectuals Hate Al Czervik

“Power, by which I mean political power, is always zero-sum: if the intellectual elite has it, you and I don’t have it.” ~ Michael Munger

An Approach to Teaching Rawls And Income Inequality

“Far from representing an outcome chosen behind the veil of ignorance, political pressures will always be driven by full knowledge of the benefits realized by self-interested actors, even if they mouth formulaic invocations of ‘social justice’ while they do it.” ~ Michael C. Munger

The Screen of Gyges

“Lousy information will continue contaminating the noosphere until we figure out how to incentivize truth-tracking. So it’s not just that we must set up systems that better track the truth (innovation). We must set ourselves up to better track the truth (wisdom).” ~ Max Borders

The Essential Natural Law

Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good

Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

Razón, fe y la lucha por la civilización occidental

On Ordered Liberty: A Treatise on the Free Society (Religion, Politics, and Society in the New Millennium)

Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future

The Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age

Wilhelm Röpke’s Political Economy