David Hume’s paternity suit?
As far as we know, Hume never fathered a child — but imagine how the arguments would go at a paternity lawsuit.
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How to Tame Religious Terrorists [new The Good Life column]
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Defeating an enemy such as politicized Islam is a multi-front battle — police, military, diplomatic, cultural and philosophical. “Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and
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St. Thomas Aquinas on whether sinners should be killed or heretics tolerated
[In the excerpts below from Summa Theologica (written 1265-1274), St. Thomas Aquinas takes up two questions: Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? and Whether heretics ought to be tolerated? A PDF version of this text is here.] Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? [II II Q. 64 A.2] Objection 1. It would seem
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The Three Best Arguments against Liberal Capitalism
I gave a lecture at the Atlas Summit in June 2015 in New Hampshire on “The Three Best Arguments against Liberal Capitalism.” See the video of the 50-minute lecture here: More information about the Atlas Society and its annual Atlas Summit is here.
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Hitler and the Death of Free Speech
My article was published recently at The Savvy Street. It was first published as two separate columns in The Good Life series as “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” and “Is Free Speech Dead in Universities?” The articles were also translated into Portuguese by Matheus Pacini as “Republicar Mein Kampf é a decisão correta?”
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Por que a filosofia começa com Tales de Mileto?
A proposição-padrão é que a filosofia começa com Tales. Quando ensino isso aos meus alunos, é uma venda difícil, já que entre os textos fundadores da filosofia — atribuídos a Tales por Aristóteles — está a seguinte afirmação: “O primeiro princípio e a natureza básica de todas as coisas é a água.” e “Todas as
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Robert Salvino on entrepreneurship and public policy
Coastal Carolina University economics professor Robert Salvino’s 15-minute video lecture on “Entrepreneurship and Public Policy.” Professor Salvino discusses public policy and its effect on entrepreneurship. He contrasts active public policy methods (e.g., subsidies) and passive public policy methods (e.g., lowering taxes) and hypothesizes that passive approaches to public policy often result in more innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Free Trade Makes You a Better Person [new The Good Life column]
The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “I am quite the international trader, it turns out. “Earlier today I put on my made-in-Argentina jacket and my new made-in-India shoes and got into my made-in-Japan truck. I stopped for gas at a British petroleum station and chatted with its owner, a guy from Mexico. To
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