June 18, 2014
Don’t Dumb Down Justice to Accommodate Bad Motivations
Cohen says, and I agree, that whether something is desirable or better from a moral point of view has nothing to do with whether it’s feasible. It’s not possible for…
Author: Jason Brennan
June 18, 2014
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Village
Chapter 2 of Why Not Capitalism? features a complete, almost paragraph-by-paragraph, parody of Cohen’s Why Not Socialism?. I mimic his argument, writing style, and phrasing. I often just borrow paragraphs but switch…
June 16, 2014
The Cohen Fallacy: Why Cohen’s and Rawls’s Arguments about Institutions Are, Well, Garbage
Chapter 3 of Why Not Capitalism? explains why Cohen’s argument for the intrinsic moral superiority of socialism fails. Even though I agree with Cohen that we should not dumb down the…
June 13, 2014
Don’t Compel People to Vote; Use a Voting Lottery Instead
I’m not in favor of a voting lottery. However, I think the best arguments for compulsory voting never succeed in justifying compulsory voting. Instead, at best, they justify replacing our…
June 13, 2014
Compulsory Voting: For and Against, Now Available on Amazon
My debate with Lisa Hill, Compulsory Voting: For and Against, is now available in limited quantities on Amazon. Blurb: In Compulsory Voting: For and Against, two leading political theorists debate whether…
June 11, 2014
Why Not Capitalism? Should Appear in Paperback Today
Why Not Capitalism? should appear in paperback today. And, with it, the moral case for socialism dies. Capitalists and socialists used to duke it out on which system would work best in…