Posts by: Matt Zwolinski
That’s the topic of debate between our friend Bryan Caplan and Jan Ting of Temple University. Watch the clip above for a brief taste, or watch the whole debate here.
From The Better Angels of Our Nature:
The dark side of our communal feelings is a desire for our own group to dominate another group, no matter how we feel about its members as individuals. In a set of famous experiments, the psychologist Henri Tajfel told participants that they belonged to one [...]
Last year, with the invaluable help of Ankur Chawla and Students for Liberty, I ran a virtual reading group on Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics.
Starting in the Fall semester, I’ll be running another reading group with SFL. This one on Robert Nozick’s
Brink Lindsey’s contribution to the aforementioned “Foundations Week” at Libertarianism.org is now up. Its title is “Life’s More Complicated than the Non-Aggression Principle,” and much of the post is devoted to exemplifying that complexity.
How far below the surface should property rights in land extend? How [...]
Recently, I concluded a critical essay on the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) by making the following claim:
there comes a point where adding another layer of epicycles to one’s theory seems no longer to be the best way to proceed. There comes a point where what you need is not another refinement to the [...]
Every eight months or so, we seem to go through a bout of philosophical navel-gazing here at BHL. Some of you readers really dig that stuff, and, truly, God bless your hearts. The rest of you tolerate it, and wait patiently for it to blow over.
The most recent [...]
Roy Childs – “Tyranny is Here, and Submission is a Crime!“ The conversation at Liberty Matters on Molinari and anarchism continues with more from David Friedman, Roderick Long, David Hart, me and Roderick again on anarchism; and [...]
Recent events in Bangladesh have brought moral questions surrounding sweatshops into the spotlight again. And many consumers are wondering whether they might be doing something wrong by purchasing goods that are made in Bangladeshi textile firms. Some are calling for a boycott of clothing companies like [...]
My contribution to the Liberty Matters symposium on Gustave de Molinari is now up.
Since Molinari’s greatest claim to fame is as the father of anarcho-capitalism, and since my fellow symposiasts were Roderick Long (anarchist), David Friedman (anarchist), and Gary Chartier (anarchist) – under the editorship of anarchists Sheldon [...]
My latest post at Libertarianism.org takes a sociological detour from the recent philosophical debate over the Non-Aggression Principle.
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