June 17, 2015
Bryan Caplan on “the incredible vanishing minarchist”
Here. I certainly think he’s broadly right: the median libertarian is less absolutist than when Bryan and I argued about minarchy and anarchy back in the stone age of the…
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August 25, 2014
A methodological point and its substantive implications
Methodological: Starting from the status quo at any given time, tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation, free trade agreements, and privatization (group 1) are policy changes. That means that they must…
May 29, 2014
This link will rile some of you up.
Tyler Cowen, A libertarian case for expanding Medicaid. I have next to no views about health care funding policy. I can tell you horror stories about Canada but I also…
April 07, 2014
“There Is No Such Thing As Ideal Theory”
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
February 04, 2014
An argument about regulation
A lot of people a lot of the time underestimate how burdensome, onerous, and intrusive complicated bureaucratic rules and regulations are. They casually treat the only cost of a rule…