I think one of the mistakes people make when talking about landlords is assuming that being against landlordism necessarily means being against private property. I see it almost in the opposite way. I am against landlordism because I want private property to be much more widespread than it is today.…

Internet memes no longer merely represent people; increasingly, people construct their personas from memes. This phenomenon can be understood by combining Richard Dawkins’s concept of the meme with Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation. Dawkins introduced the meme in The Selfish Gene as a cultural replicator transmitted through imitation, allowing cultural forms to…

In July, I published two articles introducing concepts that I no longer consider adequately named: Introduction to Renewal Libertarianism and Introduction to Anarcho-Panarchy. I am not abandoning the fundamental ideas behind either article, but I think my terminology obscured what I was actually trying to describe. What I previously called Renewal Libertarianism I will now…

Murray Rothbard inherited the praxeological system of Ludwig von Mises while substantially altering its philosophical foundation. Mises developed his conception of economic knowledge within a post-Kantian intellectual environment, treating praxeology as an a priori science whose propositions are not derived from historical observation. Rothbard preserved the action axiom and the…

The Austrian School is normally introduced through its economic doctrines: marginal utility, subjective value, methodological individualism, market process, spontaneous order, and, in the Misesian tradition, praxeology. Beneath these doctrines, however, lies a philosophical history that is considerably more complicated. Austrian economics emerged within a Central European intellectual environment in which…

Hegel is usually presented as the great successor to Kant and one of the central figures of German Idealism. That is true, but it only explains part of his philosophical project. Hegel also drew heavily from Aristotle, particularly his ideas of actuality, form, teleology, and the intelligibility of reality. In…

Distributism and Austrian economics share an intellectual source in the School of Salamanca, but they do not belong to the same lineage. The Salamancans combined Aristotelian-Thomistic natural law with sophisticated analyses of private property, prices, money, scarcity, and exchange. Because their thought contained both a moral philosophy of economic life…

Although they came from very different intellectual traditions, Oswald Spengler, Jean-Claude Michéa, and Samuel Edward Konkin III converge on a striking insight: state capitalism and state socialism are not genuine opposites but products of the same liberal civilization. For Spengler, both liberal capitalism and Marxism belong to the same English…