March 15, 2016
On Feasibility
Will Wilkinson has posted a dialogue about libertarianism, ideal theory, and feasibility here. The other day a student came to my office hours asking for help on a paper. Here’s our…
Author: Jason Brennan
March 14, 2016
Democracy Works Because It Doesn’t Work
That’s the title of my contribution to “Philosophers on the 2016 US Presidential Race” at Daily Nous. I briefly hypothesize there that the rise of Donald Trump is in part because…
February 17, 2016
Dr. Seuss vs Daniel Layman
At Business Ethics Journal Review, Peter Jaworski and I respond to Daniel Layman’s attempt to critique our paper “Markets without Symbolic Limits”. Layman argues that to sell certain things “embodies” a morally…
February 17, 2016
What Are Rights and Why Are They Important?
From the new Libertarianism.org guide Political Philosophy: An Introduction, here’s a sample lecture on what rights are and why they are important. In the accompanying book, which you can download in…
February 16, 2016
Take a Free, Open-Access Course in Political Philosophy, with Me
Libertarianism.org is producing a series of free online courses. Last summer, I recorded lectures on a survey of basic and applied topics in political philosophy, available here. Lectures include: What Makes…
February 12, 2016
Most Closed Borders Arguments Lead to Anti-Liberalism
One has to be careful when making an argument for closing borders. The problem is that many of the arguments people offer lead to conclusions they are not prepared to…