Matt wrote: Libertarian arguments in favor of a free markets can be, in Jacob’s terminology, either rationalist or pluralist. Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, and Herbert Spencer are all…

The symposium “category” only lists a few posts at a time in reverse order, so here’s a table of contents so far, in order. Matt Zwolinski, Introduction Will Baude, “Rationalism,…

Levy for Dummies Lawyers This online symposium on Jacob T. Levy’s wonderful new book, Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom, has already featured contributions from writers more expert in the history and…

One of the most frequent comments I have received on Rationalism Pluralism, and Freedom is a dissatisfaction with my exclusion of the world of commerce. It seems to me that…

I think that this thought wasn’t adequately expressed in my book, and I think it will be relevant for a few of my replies, so I’m going to give it…