July 17, 2014
This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc]
Author: Jason Brennan
July 16, 2014
Rand on Kant: Let’s Use This as a Teaching Moment
In “Faith and Force,” Rand is not so nice to Kant: What Kant propounded was full, total, abject selflessness: he held that an action is moral only if you perform…
July 16, 2014
Craig Biddle’s Chart on Essential Moral Theories; Objectivist Strawmen
Do Objectivists actually believe all non-Objectivist philosophers are stupid and evil? This showed up on my Facebook feed just now. From The Objective Standard blog, an Objectivist website, here’s a list…
July 14, 2014
Will Wilkinson and Jason Brennan on Bloggingheads
Free Will is back! Will and I chat about Why Not Capitalism? here.
July 12, 2014
Bleg: Where Are the “Markets Suck” Libertarians?
Some libertarians claim that the good consequences of markets and private property form part of the moral justification of these institutions. However, others endorse absolutist or near absolutist deontological political philosophies. They…
July 11, 2014
Public Roads and the Right to Immiserate Would-Be Immigrants
In a previous post, I argued against the claim that nations closing their borders is equivalent to a person choosing not to let poor Haitians camp on her lawn. One…