April 29, 2020
Politicizing the Pandemic
You would think that if any issue would make people set aside their partisan passions it would be the coronavirus pandemic. Isn’t crystal clear that the proper response to this…
Author: Fernando Teson
August 14, 2018
Socialism: What’s in a Word?
Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…
May 22, 2018
Against International Law’s Economic Agnosticism
International law does not generally protect economic liberties. By economic liberties I mean private property rights and freedom of contract, including the individual right to trade. Even if we could…
August 08, 2017
The Bourgeois Argument for Freer Immigration
Donald Trump wants to make immigration merit-based. While many people will reject that view on a variety of grounds, some nonetheless think that admitting educated, wealthier persons is preferable to…
June 24, 2017
Hart, Dworkin, and Trump
Two federal appeals courts have now held that Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration from certain countries is unconstitutional. The 4th Circuit thought that the EO was discriminatory, while the…
May 24, 2017
Democracy and Prosperity
Tom Christiano, a leading theorist of democracy, has just reviewed Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy. In it, he accuses Jason of having an ill-equipped micro-theory that fails to account for the…