The liberal international order was a screen and a sham. But this does not mean that liberalism is lost. Scott B. Nelson proposes an alternative in “The Elusive International Order”
by Scott B. Nelson 26.10.2022 This article originally appeared on 18 August 2022 in Law & Liberty. The fame of Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero was never definitively extinguished over the centuries. But reaching its apogee in the 18th century,…
by Scott B. Nelson 07.07.2022 This article originally appeared on 15 April 2022 in Law & Liberty. Virtue signalling is a new term for an old concept. One puts on a display that costs him nothing. It earns him praise—or…
by Fruzsina Jelen Meeting on 11 August 2021 at the Austrian National Library After our intellectual journey through Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, which started at the beginning of 2021 and took us over a timespan of about half a…
by Matthew Edwards 24 February 2022 This article was originally published in German on 22 February 2022 at the Hayek Institut. With matters in the east between Russia and Ukraine still ongoing, any attempt at this point to determine the…
by Scott B. Nelson 6 February 2022 This article originally appeared on 31 January 2022 at the Austrian Economics Center. Twenty-Four Conservative-Liberal Thinkers, 2 vol.by Hannes H. GissurarsonNew Direction, PDFs available online: Volume I (350 pp.), Volume II (534 pp.) A polity drifts without…
by Scott B. Nelson 29 December 2021 This article originally appeared on 28 December 2021 at the Austrian Economics Center. Just over a century ago the German sociologist Max Weber described two ethics: the ethic of conviction and the ethic…
by Renáta Nelson 10 December 2021 Dear Austria, We would like to sincerely thank you for acting in such a timely fashion by instating your second consecutive Christmas season lockdown. Although, we feel a bit sorry for your vendors and…
Two divergent approaches to the social sciences and to liberalism By John Saudino 6 September 2021 1 Preface For some time now there has been interest on the part of some philosophers of science to reconcile Karl Popper and the…
by Scott B. Nelson 31 July 2021 This article originally appeared on 21 May 2021 in Law & Liberty. This year marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, one of the great authors of Western civilization. A…