Reprinted from Vice Magazine On Friday, the world found out about PRISM: a secret tool developed by the United States’ National Security Agency that has been used, since 2007, to directly tap into the servers of companies like Facebook, Google, and
Philosophy 
E.J. Dionne and Libertarianism
Last week, a writer at the dying publication Salon attempted to take libertarianism down a notch by casually noting the philosophy has never been implemented on a grand scale in any modern country. Libertarians, in their endearing penchant for rabble
Debating the Legality of Prostitution
Later this week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments in a constitutional challenge of our prostitution laws. As an experiment, I endeavor to answer this question using a method made famous by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa
What’s So Special About Economics?
Unlike what is commonly believed, economics is not about money, or profit, or investments, or capitalism, or wages, or unemployment or stocks and bonds or about any other buzzword you may have heard or read in the media. Yes, economics does study
The Trouble With Compensatory Justice
In Morris and Linda Tannehill’s 1970 book, Market For Liberty, the authors argue that the current law enforcement system is rooted, not in justice, but rather in vengeance, and that a justice system consisted with the principles of liberty would
Learning from Mistakes
The old idiom “you can lead a horse to water, but not make him drink” has proven itself true in the course of human learning. Or rather, it would be more accurate to label it man’s inability to learn from
Generation Why
I probably loathe the American compulsory education system more than anyone I’ve ever met. I despise it on deeply personal level, on an ethical level, and from an efficacy standpoint. I despise the people involved; the administrators, the so-called teachers,
North Korea – a Fascist State?
Reprinted from Rocking Philosophy The UK TV show ‘Panorama’, part of the BBC Network’s programme schedule, aired a programme on the 15th April 2013 called Panorama: North Korea Undercover. In the programme journalist John Sweeney went undercover as a London
An Austrian Indifference Curve vs. The Value Scale
From the introductory undergraduate to the advanced Ph.D. courses in economics, students are taught that the concept of the indifference curve is very useful in analyzing human choice. I am emphasizing the term useful for a reason. No one ever
Mark Carney’s False Ideology
Neil Macdonald of the CBC recently did an investigative piece on central bankers and what they’re doing to the world’s economies. Mark Carney was featured heavily. He told Macdonald, “there is no secret cabal orchestrating things,” despite CBC’s own findings
Bravery
Following the bombing at the Boston marathon, the mandatory condolence period of three days came and went before the news media fixes its gaze on another topic of little relevance. The tears, mourning, tributes, and pledges of vengeance played out
No Difference in Ideology and Values
Reprinted from The Daily Bell When you consider what is the difference between the ideology of North Korea and that of the U.S.A., it is difficult to say. In practical terms, of course, the U.S.A. is still largely individualistic but
Those Darn Conspiracies
As a born-in resident of the nation-state known colloquially as America, I recognize my thumb lies not on the pulse of the Canadian citizenry. But even so, I can postulate that being firm allies of United States global hegemony, Canucks
Debt, Growth, and the Illusions of Social Scientism
For all the politicians and economists who have been doggedly nonchalant about escalating levels of public debt, this was a good week. Making their week was the revelation that the statistical calculations in an influential paper were off. It is
Intellectual Property: A Classical Liberal and a Libertarian Assessment
Many contemporary theorists and commentators frame the question of intellectual property as a question of ownership over ideas. In this framework, a new product is seen as an embodiment of a new idea. Producing multiple copies of a new product is
Tibor Machan on Individualism and Its Progress in the 21st Century
Reprinted from The Daily Bell Introduction: Tibor Machan is currently Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics,
The Future of Liberalism
[This article is excerpted from Liberalism, Chapter 4] Editor’s Note- This is the last chapter of Liberalism. If you have been keeping up with our reprinting of chapters, you have read the whole of the wonderful text! The Future of
The Curious Case of the Non-Libertarian, George Jonas
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com George Jonas is an editorial writer for the National Post, a Canadian newspaper (somewhat similar to the Wall Street Journal in overall outlook). On January 19, 2013, he wrote an essay entitled “Don’t call me a libertarian.”
A Rejoinder to the RonPaul.com Affair
In light of new facts previously unknown to me, the affair over ownership of RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org turns out to be more complicated than I originally considered. These warrant a written response -as does Robert Wenzel’s rebuttal to my criticism
Paul’s Mistake on RonPaul.com
*Update- In light of Lew Rockwell’s recent post and Robert Wenzel’s article, I will address new concerns soon in another piece. I also thank Wenzel for his response as libertarianism is a political theory that, like other theories, needs discussed
New Comments on Mises Canada