November 11, 2016
A Theory of Justice, Post-Trump Edition
John Rawls famously argues that we should think about principles of justice from behind a “veil of ignorance.” How robust would you like the protection of religious freedom to be…
Author: Christopher Freiman
September 30, 2016
What is the Root of Wrongdoing?
I’ve got a piece up at Aeon on moral philosophy. I argue that conventional wisdom overstates the role of self-interest in motivating wrongdoing and understates the role of what Kant…
June 21, 2016
National Partiality and the Rights of Foreigners
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo We claim that immigration restrictions and liberalism are incompatible. One response to our argument is that states have stronger obligations to their citizens than…
June 06, 2016
Why the Freedom to Immigrate is as Important as Other Freedoms
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo We think the freedom to immigrate is a basic liberty along with freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, occupational freedom, and so on. A…
May 30, 2016
The Costs of Immigration Are the Price of Liberalism
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo Our first post in this series argued that freedom of immigration is on a par with other important liberal freedoms like occupational choice and…
May 25, 2016
Immigration and Self-Determination
(by Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo) As we noted in our previous post, there is a tension between liberalism and immigration restrictions. Why? Well, immigration restrictions interfere with important liberties,…