Recently, I had a bit of an altercation, a disagreement, a misunderstanding, with a many decades long friend of mine, a fellow Austro libertarian, a gifted and creative contributor to our mutual philosophy, a person with whom I aggree agree on perhaps 99% of all issues in political economy. It concerns an article I published criticizing one of his publications. He took great offense at my attempt to refute his views. He was so unhappy with me that our friendship of many years was almost at risk. I tried to set him straight about the virtues and the benefits of … Continue reading On the Benefits of Proper Intellectual Debate