A little while ago, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy published its revised entry on Libertarianism, co-authored by Peter Vallentyne and myself. The entry focuses on libertarian theory in the narrow…
Two years ago I participated in an NEH summer seminar for political philosophers. This was during the campaign for the 2012 Presidential election. One evening over drinks, I asked the…
The New York Times seems to have made up its mind: pot should be illegal. It has recently run pieces that suggest things in Colorado are going very bad indeed since…
A few days ago, we ran this interesting guest post by Molly Thrasher. Her project, Try Freedom Stories, tries to highlight non-governmental solutions to social problems. They are making some…
Just in case people haven’t seen this yet, there’s a pretty awesome book symposium on Joseph Carens’ new book on immigration going on over at Crooked Timber. So far, three…
Thomas Piketty’s new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is all the rage right now. You know the gist: Piketty thinks capitalism has an inherent tendency to ever-increasing inequality. Indeed,…