March 29, 2013
Freedom and the fifty states
The fine folks at Mercatus have released an index of freedom in the fifty U.S. states that’s attracted quite a bit of attention, mostly uncomplimentary. (See the libertarian-leaning Timothy Lee,…
Author: Jacob T. Levy
January 11, 2013
Elsewhere
See Kieran Healey on Becky Pettit’s Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress as well as the interview with Pettit at EconTalk.
December 17, 2012
An excerpt from my review of Free Market Fairness
The review is part of a symposium I’ve edited for The Journal of Politics; it includes reviews by Sheri Berman, Eric MacGilvray, Robert S. Taylor, and myself, and a reply…
December 09, 2012
Social justice
I’m somewhere between the strong opponents of the concept of “social justice” among libertarians and my BHL colleagues who embrace it Tomasi-style. But a facebook discussion prompts the following thought:…
December 03, 2012
Monstrous but not alien
Paul Finkelman’s NYT op-ed on Thomas Jefferson, “The Monster of Monticello,” has attracted much commentary: David Post, Tyler Cowen, Corey Robin, Scott Lemieux, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and again. Fundamentally Post is…