August 10, 2013
A Theory of Civil Disobedience in Three Minutes
Civil disobedience* is one of the easiest topics in political philosophy. Civil disobedience is at base the conscientious decision to break a law on the grounds that it’s unjust. It…
Month: August 2013
August 09, 2013
Reasons for Open Borders
I suppose the readers of this website are more likely than most to favor open borders. But the majority of people are pretty strongly opposed to immigration. They think the…
August 08, 2013
Promises and Following Orders
In this brief post, I want to discuss why promising or swearing to follow orders or to obey the law does not excuse people–such as soldiers or police officers–when they enforce…
August 07, 2013
Property-Owning Democracy Reviewed
As regular BHL readers know, I did a big series of blog posts on Rawlsian property-owning democracy last November. My criticisms were a response to some articles on property-owning democracy…
August 07, 2013
Anthony Gregory on the Atomic Bombings
Here. It’s now common knowledge that Japan was looking to surrender before the bombings. The bombings were not necessary to save the lives of American soldiers, nor is it true…
August 05, 2013
Sumner, Social Darwinism, and Social Justice
My series on William Graham Sumner at Libertarianism.org is now complete. I blogged here about the first two posts a couple of weeks ago. The last two posts went up…