Dan Klein prompts us to think about the relationship between superiors and inferiors, and how this sheds light on our ...

Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th- century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences. His contributions to economics highlighted the ...

Benjamin Tucker praises Herbert Spencer but argues his criticism of state socialism is incomplete. A very acute criticism of Mr. Spencer’s position has been made recently before the Manhattan Liberal ...

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, where he advised the ...

Mandeville laid the groundwork for understanding society as an evolving system shaped by passions, not perfection. This episode explores the provocative work of Bernard Mandeville, who argued that ...