March 23, 2011
Critical Reasoning & Eudaimonia (Responses to my 3/15 post, Part I)
My post of 3/15 (Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway) elicited quite a few comments. I’ve been slow about it, but my response will take the…
Author: Andrew Cohen
March 15, 2011
Some Values Matter More Than Others And Are Ignored Anyway
To begin, let me note that I think Matt is right that understanding the empirical facts will not be enough to bridge the gap between modern, welfare, liberals and libertarians,…
March 11, 2011
Mercantalism, Protectionism, Promotionism
James writes that “(2) being in favor of markets does not mean that one favors everything that businesses engage in to enhance their profitability.” This is clearly right. Adam Smith, famously, argued…
March 08, 2011
Liberalism
In earlier posts, Jason nicely laid out a variety of forms of philosophical liberalism and Jacob nicely indicated a difference between the philosophical and political. Here, I'd like to briefly lay out…
March 07, 2011
Immigration (prompted by Utah)
Its unfortunate that people fail to recognize the benefits of immigration. Its incredibly unfortunate that some who call themselves "libertarians" are in that camp. Open economic borders are clearly…
March 05, 2011
Prompted by Wisconsin
At the risk of violating blog etiquette, I am not (for now, anyway) writing an introductory post. Suffice it to say that I agree with my co-bloggers that libertarianism and…