“Even if Libertarianism is Stupid, We’re Still Right.” Excerpt: After reading Benjamin Barber’s careful, fair, charitable, and rigorous essay, I realized Barber is right. Market fundamentalism and libertarianism are cuckoo. We…
Ben Barber has written a “response” to our essay at Cato Unbound. I put “response” in scare quotes because, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to address what we’ve said or argued….
Criminal Law and Philosophy just published my paper “Consequences Matter More: In Defense of Instrumentalism on Private versus Public Prisons,” critiquing Alon Harel’s Why Law Matters. Abstract: Alon Harel wants to show that punishment…
Are you a junior faculty member (broadly construed to include post-docs, tenure-track assistant professors, non-tenure-track visiting professors, lecturers, instructors, or adjuncts)? Are you done or almost done with a draft…
The Wall Street Journal reports that a recent poll of 800 college students indicates that the major prefer mandatory trigger warnings on campus syllabi. I don’t know if the study is…
Ayn Rand’s “Philosophy: Who Needs It?” seems to some people to be a stunning defense of the value of philosophy. To me, it reads like polemical, hyperbolic nonsense. It’s bad armchair psychology.*…