Democracy is the rule of hooligans, and hooligans demand hooliganism from everyone else. Check Facebook, the news, the English department’s faculty meeting, or Twitter, and you’ll see that modern democracy…
In most countries, most people are poor. In some countries, most people are rich. Adam Smith and other economists have long sought to explain why. Philosophers who work on global justice…
In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I wonder why so much of the global justice literature defends the opposite conclusions of development economics. Philosophers ignore or more often denigrate property…
I’m pleased to announced In Defense of Openness is now available. Here’s the blurb: The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory,…
Some speculation: Tolerance–of differing religions, behaviors, lifestyles, attitudes, political ideologies, speech patterns, languages, etc–brings a wide range of benefits. Tolerance facilities the free exchange of ideas and goods, and in…
A Facebook exchange today illustrated how some people conflate A) open borders with B) granting asylum to everyone. Or, perhaps, they conflate A) denying asylum to asylum seekers with B)…