January 08, 2018
Religious Exemptions Volume
For people interested in the normative dimensions of religious exemptions, Michael Weber and I have just published a new anthology of articles with Oxford University Press. We’re very happy with…
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November 06, 2017
Anderson V. Munger Cage Match!!!
Okay, no. It was orderly and respectful. And she’s probably right. But Liz Anderson WAS kind enough to have a discussion/debate about her new book, Private Government. The video is…
September 02, 2017
What James Buchanan Actually Thought
One might expect a historian going through Buchanan’s works trying to find his views on this subject to discover this letter, but no, it’s much easier I guess…
August 02, 2017
Chris Freiman’s Unequivocal Justice
Christopher Freiman has just published a fabulous book, Unequivocal Justice, the first book in Routledge Press’s new “Political Philosophy for the Real World” series. It is a tour de force of philosophical…
July 22, 2017
Did Buchanan Really Think That African-Americans Had No Desire For Freedom? Another Major Distortion from Nancy MacLean.
On July 19th The Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece giving Nancy MacLean the opportunity to respond to her critics. (Unfortunately, she didn’t take the opportunity to respond to…
July 10, 2017
The Problem of Pluralism Isn’t Real
I recently read Linda Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment. The book explores and sort of gestures at a solution to what we might call the Problem of Pluralism….