June 18, 2013
Markets and Care
[Editor’s Note: Kevin Currie-Knight is a PhD Candidate at University of Delaware’s School of Education. He specializes in the history and philosophy of education. His dissertation, From Laissez-Faire to Vouchers, is…
Month: June 2013
June 17, 2013
Carl Menger Essay Contest
My friend Adam Martin asked me to post this advertisement for the Carl Menger Essay Contest that FEE runs each year. It looks like fun! The Society for the Development of…
June 17, 2013
Visiting Fulbright Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism at McGill University, 2014-15
(Please excuse the shilling, but a lot of potential applicants are among this blog’s readers!) The Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism at…
June 15, 2013
What Global Justice Should Be About: A Preview
Here are the projected introductory paragraphs of the book we have (almost!) completed with Loren Lomasky: What do we owe distant others? In this book we offer a simple answer…
June 15, 2013
Liberty or Security?
The recent news about so-called NSA surveillance programs brought back a familiar argument. Liberty and security, we are told, need to be balanced or traded off against each other. People…
June 12, 2013
The Pinker Angels of Our Nature
Stephen Corry criticises Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond on the diminution-of-violence thesis. (CHT Jesse Walker.) See also my exchange with Matt Zwolinski and Gary Chartier on Pinker here, and my…