January 23, 2014
BHL, ILS, MTL
Sarah and I (among others) will be giving talks at this Saturday’s Institute for Liberal Studies seminar at McGill. Attendance is free; registration is here. I have the strong suspicion…
Month: January 2014
January 22, 2014
Rothbard the Bleeding Heart?
I’ve been re-reading Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty in preparation for a seminar I’m teaching this semester on contemporary libertarian philosophical thought. It’s probably been at least ten years since…
January 18, 2014
More on the drug war
You may recall my previous post on the extreme injustice of the drug war. To my mind, this continues to be the most important, easy to solve issue facing us today. So…
January 16, 2014
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part IV: Consumer Sovereignty, and Getting “The Things” There
In “Wall Street,” Gordon Gecko delivers an iconic speech: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the…
January 16, 2014
Thoughts on Liberty’s Poor Thoughts on Snowden
The blog Thoughts on Liberty recently posted a piece arguing that Snowden should face punishment for his actions. The main argument: In short, I’m not hugely happy with the idea…
January 15, 2014
The Spirit of Anti-Neutralism
I’m a liberal neutralist. I think that if we must have politics, governments should try insofar as possible to avoid promoting one conception of the good and right, worldviews, religions,…