August 09, 2013
Reasons for Open Borders
I suppose the readers of this website are more likely than most to favor open borders. But the majority of people are pretty strongly opposed to immigration. They think the…
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July 29, 2013
How Power Corrupts
We all know Lord Acton’s famous phrase: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Most people think Acton touched upon something of real importance here. But there’s a…
April 30, 2013
Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression
There are two ways one can go wrong with regard to the non-aggression principle (NAP). One way to go wrong is to treat the NAP as a rigid, out-of-context principle…
August 21, 2012
Morality for Grown Ups
We tell our children that it’s wrong to lie. And, at least when they are young, we do not qualify the statement. We do not tell them that it’s wrong…
July 16, 2012
Coercion in Employment: Putting the Concept of Coercion to Work
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution from Scott Anderson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Scott’s not a libertarian, but he’a friend and a good…
July 09, 2012
Libertarianism, Freedom, and Coercion
Bertram, Robin and Gourevitch (BRG) don’t think that libertarianism takes seriously enough the ways in which workers’ freedom is restricted in a capitalist economy. Jason Brennan thinks that BRG misunderstand the sort of libertarianism…