June 07, 2014
The Drug Debate Remains Frustrating
The New York Times seems to have made up its mind: pot should be illegal. It has recently run pieces that suggest things in Colorado are going very bad indeed since…
Month: June 2014
June 06, 2014
Blogging the Annual Review of Political Science: Hug
(See the introduction to and explanation of this series of posts.) Many kinds of political science data are messy. Demographers get to aggregate, e.g., births and deaths: pretty clear individual-level…
June 05, 2014
Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part IIIB: Criticisms of Piketty’s Egalitarianism
In my last Piketty post, I outlined Piketty’s arguments 2E and 2P, namely that patrimonial capitalism generates unjustified inequalities and that a global capital tax will contain those inequalities in…
June 04, 2014
Toleration, Children, Animals, and the Environment
This is the third, though much delayed, post in a series that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
June 04, 2014
Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part III: Inequality and the Common Utility
I will address Piketty’s arguments that patrimonial capital generates unjust inequalities and that a global wealth tax can suitably reduce those inequalities in two parts. In this post, I’ll simply…
June 03, 2014
Blogging the Annual Review of Political Science: Walzer
(See the introduction to and explanation of this series of posts.) Well, that was disappointing. Michael Walzer is the most important living American political theorist, and among the most important…