Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s ...

While my belief was both true and justified, I did not, properly speaking, have knowledge. Responses to the Gettier problem typically involve elaborating upon the tripartite theory, for example, ...

Economist Friedrich Hayek explained in 1945 why centrally controlled “command economies” were doomed to waste, inefficiency, and collapse: Insufficient knowledge. He won a Nobel Prize. But it turns ...

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for ...