Questions for Bastiat’s “Selected Essays on Political Economy”

If you’ve been keeping track with the blog, you probably noticed things have been a bit sluggish in getting posted. Hopefully we won’t have another down time like that. Nevertheless, you’ll remember last week we were graciously provided with our first set of books by Students for Liberty (the national organization). www.studentsforliberty.org As I understand [...]

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Liberty Lecture Series: Dr. James Lark

MLWGS Students for Liberty is pleased to announce we will be hosting the first of our lecture series on Wednesday, October 21 at 3:30 PM in the forum. Our guest speaker will be Professor James Lark. Dr. Lark currently teaches at the University of Virginia, and served as national chairman of the Libertarian Party from [...]

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Plato: A Primer

Alright, time for a brief introduction to one of the most influential thinkers of Western Political Thought. Bear with me, I am by no means an expert and all of what I have to say comes from individual learning as opposed to being taught in a formal setting. Teachers and philosophers out there, please offer [...]

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The Review of Metaphysics

I know for myself it’s really difficult to find a good philosophy journal that’s easy to comprehend and doesn’t assume you’re already proficient in whatever subject the article is discussing. Recently, I was looking around for some interesting articles we could take a look at about Aristotle, specifically where Liberty would fit in with his [...]

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The Influence of the Ancients

Keeping in touch with my earlier post on Plato’s virtue and justice and his notion of the Philosopher-King, take a look at this lecture from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute titled “What Hath Athens to do with Wall Street?: How the Ancients Help us to understand the Free Market” In it, Classics and Humanities Professor Bruce [...]

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From ‘The Proper Study of Mankind’

To all those who shun politics or poltical theory as an idle endeavor relegated to the power hungry, I offer the following excerpt from a brilliant essay we’ll be reading titled “Two Concepts of Liberty” by intellectual historian and philosopher Isaiah Berlin.  “Our philosophers seem oddly unaware of these devastating effects of their activities. It [...]

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