From the monthly archives: November 2012
Bill Glod interviews me here: http://www.kosmosonline.org/2012/11/28/jason-brennan-on-his-new-book-libertarianism/
My favorite question that he asks (around 11:35) is what should libertarian academics work on right now. I say my overall advice is to work on whatever they find interesting. Don’t feel that your job is to be a spokesperson for an ideology, because doing so would be [...]
(The following is a bit messy–it’s extracted from comments I gave at a colloquium a year ago. But I’d like to share anyways.)
I never make self-ownership-type arguments. Yet, if you ask me whether people are self-owners, I’d say, sure. Some left-liberals claim to find the idea perplexing, but I think that’s because they’re perplexed [...]
George H. Smith (of Atheism: The Case Against God fame, among other works) starts a commentary on my recent book Libertarianism here.
His overall take is positive:
With the recent publication of Jason Brennan’s Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know comes a new addition to my list of recommended introductory texts[...] Brennan [...]
In this post, following my previous post, I will review the Rawlsian arguments for property-owning democracy (POD) and comment a bit on their structure. In short, POD is required to realize Rawlsian principles because welfare-state capitalism (WSC) fails to properly disperse capital and provide worker control required to realize Rawls’s two principles of [...]
Beginning December 10th, in conjunction with the awesome Students for Liberty (old people like it too!), I’m going to be leading an online reading group on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics. It’s going to be a small group – [...]
Corey Brettschneider, a political philosopher at Brown, has just published an interesting and thoughtful new book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality. I’m participating in a reading group on the book over at the Public Reason blog (a blog devoted to political [...]
Recent events in the Middle East have prompted vigorous exchanges on this site. Definitive judgments regarding these matters depend on detailed historical analysis; and engaging in historical inquiry is not my comparative advantage—nor is it that, I suspect, of most participants in conversations here. I want to resist the temptation to engage in amateur historiography. [...]
My problem with BHL is that I have been unable to get its supporters to tell me what it is.
Does he really believe that, or is this just a way of being cute? I dunno.
Anyways, if you look at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, you see [...]
Libertarianism, Self-Defense, and Innocent Shields
By Matt Zwolinski On November 24, 2012 · 68 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Current Events, Libertarianism, Rights Theory
Suppose A is unjustly attacking V, and using I as an “innocent shield.” In other words, A has positioned himself (or I) in such a way as to make it difficult for V to employ defensive force against A without endangering I in the process. In circumstances such as these, is it [...]
[Editor's Note: In the interest of continuing and deepening our discussion of issues pertaining to the current conflict in Gaza, and of the implications of libertarian thought for issues of foreign policy more generally, we are running the following guest submission by Peter Lewin. Lewin is clinical professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas [...]
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