Pete Buttigieg for President? Increasingly, Buttigieg is receiving praise even conservatives associated with the Republican Establishment™ and more enthusiastic praise from libertarians and classical liberals.…
Posts published in “Philosophy”
What is the academic discipline of economics? The answer has changed over time. Today economics departments find themselves aligned with social sciences, data analytics, statistics, and business,…
The name of this blog is Almost Classical because I find myself more pragmatic than ideologically pure. But, what is a classical liberal if the label is…
Before asking why “classical liberal” is a label making a comeback, one has to understand what the “Intellectual Dark Web” is, at least what the…
Libertarian philosophies and economic theories have not had much influence in the United States for nearly a century. Only in opposition to Democrats and Progressives…
Not every famous philosopher had a degree in philosophy or formal training in the field. We define philosopher based on demonstrated rigor of thought and systemic reasoning.…
If liberals, progressives, and even Marxists are most common in history and political science departments within universities, then it goes to reason that these fields…
Duke University historian Nancy MacLean is currently a trendy historian who spent 2017 touring and promoting her book Democracy in Chains. The book has some…
In 2016 I posted about the value of reading Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, and Michael Otsuka. These left-libertarian thinkers remain influential in my life. Online…
Democracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…