March 06, 2014
Global Justice and the Problem of Kleptocracies
The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…
Author: Fernando Teson
March 03, 2014
Grotius and Me
My essay Hugo Grotius on War and the State has been posted on Liberty Matters, the online scholarly site of the Liberty Fund. I claim, among other things, that while Grotius’ jurisprudential method…
February 15, 2014
A Bad Argument Against Immigration
Here’s a particularly bad argument against immigration: “Liberal immigration laws are unfair to legal immigrants who have played by the rules and waited patiently to get into this country in…
December 05, 2013
The Pope’s Statism
Today I read with some care the Pope’s pastoral letter. It is worse than I thought. Much has been said about the Pope’s ignorance of elementary economics (see here, here,…
November 20, 2013
Sufficientarian Liberalism
A common thread on this blog is the thought that free markets are preferable to various forms of state intervention if our aims are, not only to achieve prosperity, but…
September 02, 2013
Syria and the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention
Some supporters of the proposed intervention in Syria call it a genuine case of humanitarian intervention (see here and here). In reply, critics may: A) Deny the validity of the doctrine…