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 [...]
Last set of comments on Tomasi. Today: ideal theory, and the argument for social justice.
Justice in Fairyland
When Tomasi was writing Free Market Fairness, I predicted it would have the effect of making left-liberals more skeptical of the value of “ideal theory”. They would see that it’s relatively easy for institutions to satisfy [...]
Here’s part II of my comments on Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness for the Pacific APA. Much of this material today will be familiar to regular readers of this blog. Tomorrow I’ll post some newer stuff you haven’t heard here yet.
The Exclusion Problem
For Rawls—at least most of the time—the first principle of justice has lexical [...]
Tomasi Book Workshop Part I
The Pacific APA is holding an author meets critics session on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness in late March. I’m one of the critics, along with Steve Wall and Paul Gowder. Over the next few weeks, I’ll post my comments for the session. I’ll blog after the session about Tomasi’s response (or perhaps he’ll blog his [...]
My review of Chartier’s most recent book is here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/38159-anarchy-and-legal-order-law-and-politics-for-a-stateless-society/ Perhaps I have the minority point of view here. Tesón calls it “required reading”. Zwolinski says that book is “one of the most important books of libertarian political theory to be published in the last forty years.”
Chartier responds to me here: http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2013/03/jason-brennan-did-not-like-gary-chartiers-book/
I [...]
Jason Brennan Did Not Like Gary Chartier’s Book
The argument of Anarchy and Legal Order is relatively simple and straightforward. There are some things we may never reasonably do to each other, and other things we have very good reason not do. Territorial monopolists—states—do these things persistently. Their putative value as maintainers of social order might be thought to render [...]
C-SPAN did a one-hour interview with me on my most recent book, Libertarianism. You can watch the video here.
It was a bit of a surreal interview for me, in part because we discussed personal matters, rather than just the book. (One producer asked me to be forthcoming before the interview, [...]
Thoughts on Left Libertarianism
The Freeman has published my review of Gary Chartier and Charles Johnson’s Market Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty (buy it or download the free PDF). It’s a short review, but my bottom line is extremely positive:
Libertarianism is a revolutionary creed, and Chartier [...]
UPDATE (2:18 pm): A couple more points:
In the What Everyone Needs to Know series, we’re not supposed to take a hard stand. I’m not trying to convert anyone. I’m just trying to get them to understand what libertarians think and why, and in particular, to see that not all libertarians are a bunch of cranks [...]
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