I GENERALLY enjoy Jim Taylor’s letters to The National, but the strapline to his letter, “We’ll always be robbing Peter to pay Paul ...

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Is significant regulation of speech required? Or can we leave it up to the “marketplace for ideas” to handle it?

Free speech, grounded in the principle of dispersed knowledge and “epistemic modesty” championed by Hayek, is far less dangerous than censorship, which empowers a self-appointed elite to enforce their ...

Biden's presidency questioned as progressive politics and a deep state bureaucracy overshadow leadership, leading to ...

20 Historical Figures Whose True Evil Was Only Discovered After Their Death Scientists studied late sleepers for 8 years and this is what they found ‘I’ve been in debt, bankrupt’: Inside an ...

The invisible string theory follows the idea that you are connected to your soulmate via a metaphorical string. While this belief can provide hope and comfort, it can also lead to people staying ...

In this piece, I show that the standard theory of externalities in economics falls in the same camp. For long, like any other student of economics, I thought of externalities as an inefficiency ...

Recent scholarship has revealed that Austen’s novels are engaged in debates about Enlightenment philosophy, steeped in contemporary ideas, particularly the work of Adam Smith and David Hume.

The theory of absolute advantage represents Adam Smith's explanation of why countries benefit from trade, by exporting goods where they have an absolute advantage and importing other goods.