December 31, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Authoritarian
I’ve argued (ad nauseam) that property-owning democracy is bad because it is unworkable and unjust. I shall now argue that it is authoritarian as well. But before I begin, what…
Month: December 2012
December 21, 2012
What’s in a Word?
Here, just in time for holiday fun, is some old-fashioned ordinary-language, probably worthless, rumination. It is often said, when criticizing institutions, that such and such political arrangement systematically hurts the…
December 21, 2012
On the Right to Own a Gun
In light of the recent calls for a “national conversation” about gun violence and gun control, and in light of the admiration that some of us here at BHL have…
December 20, 2012
Property-Owning Democracy is Unjust, Free-Market Fairness is Not
In my last post, in my series on property-owning democracy (POD), I claimed that it is unjust because POD frustrates the realization of Rawls’s (unmodified) two principles of justice. But…
December 20, 2012
Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, on Free Speech
Some excerpts from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know. On the dangers of restricting “offensive speech”. In a free society, everyone has the right to offend others. A society in which…
December 20, 2012
Part of My Letter to URI’s President Dooley
…it’s an abuse of language to infer he was actually making actionable threats against anyone. As the president of the University of Rhode Island, it is your responsibility not to…