September 12, 2016
Grand Jury nullification
Here are two fictionalized cases where the arrested individuals were fortunately not indicted. Case 1. A young male stormed out of a court room after the judge indicated he should leave….
Author: Andrew Cohen
September 06, 2016
Phones, Phones, Phones—But Not Really
Take a moment to imagine the following 2 scenarios. Scenario 1. Company A produced the ExcellaFone smartphone which was widely loved and had no problems. It was widely regarded as…
August 15, 2016
Call for Papers for Conference
“Overcriminalization and Indigent Legal Care” April 6 & 7, 2017 – Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics Georgia State University Keynote speakers: David Boonin (Philosophy,…
July 08, 2016
CHANGE
Think nothing can be done? Vote for Gary Johnson. Let’s work on getting moralistic and paternalistic laws off the books so that there is less policing in the first place….
February 08, 2016
GA State MA program
Just a reminder that Georgia State University’s terminal MA program in philosophy is still accepting applications through April 15 for Fall 2016. All acceptances come with a two-year assistantship package…
October 15, 2015
Podcast on Toleration
Last month I did an episode of the Free Thoughts Podcast over at Libertarianism.org. Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burns, and I had a great discussion about toleration. Check it out…