Philosophy

Right Minds editor Dieuwe de Boer takes a short break from politics to celebrate the rainbow and then expose the truth about unicorns that the anti-unicorn lobby doesn't want you to know.

While David Seymour continued his pushed for euthanasia over the last year, I've been reading John Locke's Two Treatises on Government. I had never read the original source of this philosophy from the Father of Liberalism himself. While reading the works of John Locke, I realised that most professed classical liberals probably haven't either.

Historian, economist and radio host, Tom Woods talks us through the history of rights and where they come from. Woods identifies the 12th century as the time when rights as we know them today. On top form, Woods draws on a wide range of his extensive scholarship, explaining the concept of self- ...

What has feminism done to shatter the patriarchal "women and children first" mentality, and elevate men to status as full human beings deserving of empathy and human rights? What has it done to reinforce and legally entrench the mentality that everyone, including men themselves, should put men last?

Meet The 22 Economists That Want To Kill Your Purchasing Power. After the Fed failed to spark any notable increase in aggregate demand despite keeping interest rates at zero for seven years, a group of economists is pressuring the central bank to rethink one of its most closely held-policy ...

Tom Woods interviews Joe Salerno and breaks down how Mises explained what nationalism means to a libertarian or anarcho-capitalist.

Here in the western world, no matter what our views or political allegiances might be, we all share the luck and good fortune of living in democracies and having the right to vote for our leaders and representatives. Unfortunately, politicians are a notoriously tricky lot and while their policies ...

I recently read this interesting article over on Social Matter. While well-written and thought-provoking, I do have some misgivings about the author's conclusions.

It is common nowadays to speak of "rights" to any number of things: abortion, affordable healthcare, state benefits, etc. We are even told that certain groups (and straight white cis men are not among them) have "rights" to nebulous concepts like "a voice," "respect," "inclusion," or even "love."