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Though the expenditure of energy prevents it, physical teleology tends towards a state of rest (diffusion, the second law of thermodynamics). Though the addition of new information prevents it, economic teleology is always tending towards a final state of rest (equilibrium) with regard to prices (Mises, Human Action, Chapter 14.5). Though borrowing, language contact, and [...]
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Throughout the history of the Church, there have been countless movements that alternately rise and quickly wither, or completely reform the Church. Names like Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards stick out as giants and innovators among the faith, while there are countless other people that perhaps conform better to modern sensibilities as they are, but are obscured by the passage of time (for example, no one regards Pelagius anymore, even though Pelagianism – the discounting of total depravity – has been silently recreeping into pop theology for over a century)…
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Machiavelli, almost 500 years ago, had this keen insight on the apparent paradox that the stronger a government is, the easier it is to overthrow. He is of course speaking entirely from the perspective of conquering it as an outsider however – I intend to generalize the notion to include (and focus more on) the overthrow of the government from within…
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The foundation of liberal (in the classical sense) thought is freedom, for the purpose of the maximization of the happiness of man. Unfortunately happiness isn’t exactly a cut and dry concept. Libertarians of the Subjectivist school (Mises and his followers) believe happiness is maximized when man is free to do as he pleases: value, something’s [...]
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The American healthcare system is in trouble: costs are far too high. Not to the consumer – the average consumer pays only 16ยข on the dollar for medical expenses, after government and employers step in. The government pays for 50% of that, and even more for those on medicaid and medicare. The expenses are ballooning, far more quickly than many other areas of government expenditure (not including social security, of course). The government can’t pay a theoretical infinite sum in the indefinite future: something’s got to give. What are the causes of the ballooning costs?…