August 15, 2014
5 Points about the Morality of Payday Lending
Jason’s last post kicked off a bit of debate about payday lending. Is payday lending something libertarians should defend? Is it exploitative? Should it be illegal or, at the very least,…
Month: August 2014
August 15, 2014
Study Rothbard and the Libertarian Left with SFL
Want to read more Rothbard? Want to study the history and state-of-the-art in left libertarian thought? Want to do it in the company of some amazing fellow students, and some outstanding…
August 15, 2014
Things that Make You Go Hmmm
Some commentary on recent Internet things: As one of my Facebook friends put it best, “Dude, did Paul Krugman actually just publish an article about how fears of ineffective…
August 14, 2014
Parenting Failure and Government Failure
Adam Gurri has raised a number of good points about Andrew’s post, and I want to offer some remarks of my own. Some of these are versions of points I…
August 14, 2014
Morning reflection
“The military spirit is haughty, swift, swaggering. Law must be calm, often slow, and always protective.” From the brilliant Benjamin Constant’s Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments— perhaps the…
August 13, 2014
Should Philosophers Avoid Politics?
[Editor’s Note: Ben Jones currently is pursuing a PhD in political science at Yale University, and previously as Executive Director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty directed the campaign leading…