June 18, 2014
Reverse Hugo, with a Twist
In Victor Hugo’s great novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is sentenced to five years on the prison galleys for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family. It is an outrageous…
Month: June 2014
June 17, 2014
Whose Left? Which Libertarianism?
Over at C4SS I’ve posted the abstract to a paper on Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects that I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 Workshop on the Current…
June 17, 2014
A coupla links
Chris MacDonald on the anti-homeless sidewalk spikes in London and Montreal: “This example nicely illustrates the difference between having a right to do something, and it being right to do…
June 16, 2014
Toleration, Cultures, International Issues, and Corporations
This is the fourth (and likely last) post in a series that explains a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
June 16, 2014
Happy Liberalism Day!
Today is Liberalism Day. More info at Liberalism Unrelinquished In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an ascendant cultural outlook that may be termed the liberal outlook. It was…
June 16, 2014
The Cohen Fallacy: Why Cohen’s and Rawls’s Arguments about Institutions Are, Well, Garbage
Chapter 3 of Why Not Capitalism? explains why Cohen’s argument for the intrinsic moral superiority of socialism fails. Even though I agree with Cohen that we should not dumb down the…