March 07, 2017
Various Thoughts on Campus Free Speech
In no particular order or organization: 1. John Stuart Mill had a liberty principle, not a harm principle. Read Jacobson’s work on this. Mill thought you could have the right…
Author: Jason Brennan
March 06, 2017
Promises and the Right to Resist Injustice
I’ve been working on a project called When All Else Fails: Resistance to State Injustice. The thesis is of the book is simple: We have exactly the same rights of self-defense and…
February 17, 2017
Patterson Update
As you may have heard, I agreed to read and write a minimum 1200-word review of Steve Patterson’s Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge in exchange for $1000. I sent him…
February 02, 2017
The Berkeley Mess
UPDATE: In case you thought I was making this up, see what Berkeley students have to say here. There are certain strands of critical theory and postmodernist…
January 31, 2017
“America First!” and Anti-Social Communitarianism
The problem with communitarianism is that many communitarians make for bad community members. Many of them are “society first, individual second!” to the point of being anti-social. They aren’t the kind…