Will Wilkinson on the reasonable suspicion of racism about bad social science that purports to prove conclusions that just happen to be tropes of racism. (See also– this is me, not Will– Mearsheimer and Walt on “The Israel Lobby,” Summers on women’ in math and science.)
Who Spends More, Left or Right?”, a report from the Montreal Economic Institute by by Michel Kelly-Gagnon and Vincent Geloso. In an analysis of spending per GDP in Quebec, Canada, and the U.S., they found that “In reality, there is no systematic relation, for any of the three governments, between the left-wing or [...]
I was looking around the website of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, with which many of the BHL bloggers have been affiliated in one way or another. I ran across a page I hadn’t noticed before, with a mission statement that seems to me worthy of [...]
“The Case Against Cronies: Libertarians Must Stand Up to Corporate Greed. It’s time for a free-market corporate social responsibility. Conservatives who rail against government hand-outs should also blast companies who seek shelter from Washington.” Timothy Carney at The Atlantic.
(Note that the old blog post of mine quoted there was a musing [...]
Workshop on Alex Gourevitch, _Something of Slavery Still Remains_
On May 14, we will hold a workshop at McGill on Alex Gourevitch’s manuscript Something of Slavery Still Remains: Labor and the Cooperative Commonwealth. Gourevitch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, soon to be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University, and one of the authors of [...]
Of possible interest to BHL readers: a review symposium of John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness in The Journal of Politics, with pieces by Sheri Berman, Eric MacGilvray, Robert Taylor, and me, and a response by Tomasi. (Subscription/ library access required.) This takes the place of an APSA roundtable that was cancelled due to [...]
on my post about Landsburg, one on the University of Rochester’s position and one on why not to try to answer his questions framed in his way.
Soi-disant “libertarian” Steven Landsburg is in the news for a simple-minded and clearly-supposed to-be-show-off-ily-”brave”-and-”provocative” hypothetical about rape that compares it to being “penetrated” by photons, and the psychic cost of knowing one was raped while unconscious to the psychic cost of knowing that other people are looking at pornography. The post [...]
The fine folks at Mercatus have released an index of freedom in the fifty U.S. states that’s attracted quite a bit of attention, mostly uncomplimentary. (See the libertarian-leaning Timothy Lee, as well as Matt Yglesias, for example.) I have some substantive quarrels with both inclusions (right-to-work laws, for [...]
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