For those of you interested in the nonideal/ideal theory debate in political philosophy (the one Jacob has just written a lovely paper about), I thought I’d let you know that…
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
(Meme by Matt Zwolinski) I know Salon only employs fools and knaves, but I did not expect to see them publish something as silly as this: Rand Paul’s brand of…
Robert Wenzel expresses incredulity at my recent post on campaign expenditures. (He doesn’t indicate whether he read any of the papers I linked to.) Wenzel writes: Aside from the question of…
Many people are going to be infuriated today. But their fury is based on an unproven, quite possibly false, assumption. USA Today writes: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took another…
Salon Magazine frequently features articles about libertarians and libertarianism, but these articles paint libertarianism in the most uncharitable light possible. However, to their credit, the editors genuinely want to produce accurate…