March 14, 2020
The Ethics of Price Gouging
Is it wrong to stock up on hand sanitizer, and try to sell it at a profit? Would it be wrong for stores to increase the price of toilet paper…
Posts filed under current events
June 27, 2016
No, there’s not a market-liberal case for Brexit
I’ve been dismayed to see how many– not a majority, but a long way above “none”– of my libertarian friends on social media are either enthusiastic about British exit from…
March 07, 2012
Libertarian Hypocrisy?
Julian Sanchez’s preresignation over the Kochtopus-Cato Kerfuffel has caused some commentators to gleefully point out the ‘hypocrisy’ of Sanchez and other lefty libertarians. Sanchez himself has a terrific take-down of…
February 06, 2012
John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi’s new book, Free Market Fairness, is scheduled for release this week. I read this book in draft form almost exactly a year ago, when John was out in San…
December 21, 2011
What about Ron Paul?
If you say you’re against the state these days, someone’s sure to ask you how your views parallel Ron Paul’s. The frequency of these sorts of conversations seem likely to…
September 21, 2011
Kill the Death Penalty
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that some people deserve to die, it does not follow that the state may be authorized to kill them. For a…