May 21, 2015
True Islamophobia
Virtually everyone abhors the crimes committed by radical Islamists. However, it is difficult these days to criticize Muslim practices that fall short of terrorist violence. These practices include, among others,…
Author: Fernando Teson
May 10, 2015
Bad Ideas about Trade
In one of its good initiatives, the Obama administration is trying to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership – a multilateral trade treaty with some of the most successful and fast-growing nations West…
April 12, 2015
On Natural Resources
International lawyers often invoke a rule dubbed “Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources [hereinafter PSNR]. The rule reads : “The right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural…
January 04, 2015
The Uneasy Marriage of Liberty and Democracy
Michael Huemer writes that if seven friends at the bar decide by a vote of 6 to 1 that you should pay for everyone’s drinks, you are not obligated to…
November 11, 2014
Response to Jason Brennan
I disagree so much with Jason Brennan’s post that I don’t know where to begin, and certainly I can’t put it all here. The US has provided for many years, at…
September 19, 2014
Self-Determination: Follow-up to Jason Brennan
The right of self-determination, despite the stirring rhetoric of its advocates, is profoundly illiberal. It is not a right against a state but a right to a state. It is…