Month: March 2013

March 24, 2013

Discussion Questions du Jour

Suppose socialism had never become anything more than an intellectual movement, i.e., that no actual regime came to power calling itself socialist and putting into place policies and institutions it…
March 19, 2013

Richard Epstein AMA Tomorrow

The libertarian legal scholar Richard Epstein will be participating in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.com tomorrow (Wednesday, March 20, 10am-12pm ET). It’s a great chance to ask whatever questions you have of him. You do need to…
March 19, 2013

Tomasi Part III

Last set of comments on Tomasi. Today: ideal theory, and the argument for social justice. Justice in Fairyland             When Tomasi was writing Free Market Fairness, I predicted it would…
March 18, 2013

What Are We Supposed to Do?

(Trigger warning: While this post does not discuss rapes and assaults in detail, several of the linked articles do.) Now that the Steubenville rapists have been convicted and sentenced, we…
March 18, 2013

Why Limit PAD to the Terminally Ill?

While catching up on the recent Cato Unbound conversations, I just read through Howard Ball’s lead essay and Philip Nitschke’s response about physician assisted death. Ball argues that a terminally…