August 06, 2015
Ober on Greece
I haven’t yet read Josiah Ober’s new book The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (it’s been out of stock in Canada for months) but the presentation I heard on…
Author: Jacob T. Levy
July 27, 2015
The regulatory state is too big and too regressive
As a possible companion piece to Steve’s policy paper that he mentioned last week, BHL-avant-la-lettre and former guest blogger Brink Lindsey has a white paper out from Cato. Update: See…
July 14, 2015
New review of RPF in Theory & Event
A new review of Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom has appeared in Theory & Event, by Nicholas Tampio (Project Muse subscription required, i.e. probably institutional-library access required). (See also: Mark Koyama…
July 06, 2015
Free Thoughts podcast about Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
I was interviewed by Cato’s Aaron Ross Powell and Trevor Burrus for the http://libertarianism.org podcast “Free Thoughts” about Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom. Our hourlong discussion is available as a podcast…
June 26, 2015
Free and equal
This week we’ve had evidence of two astonishingly rapid tipping points in American public norms, both toward greater equality. In less than twenty years, the United States has moved from…
June 18, 2015
The stake which was lost at Richmond
It’s the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. It’s also the day after a white man went into one of the most important black churches in the history of…