December 12, 2013
Speaking of Silliness
The Atlantic has a nice rejoinder to Pope Francis’s ignorant nonsense about the world economy.
Author: Jason Brennan
December 12, 2013
Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics Argument Refuted in Under 60 Seconds
Wouldn’t it be nice if it turned out that every argument presupposed that your ideology is correct? Hell, yeah! But, unfortunately, it ain’t so. Time to grow up and put…
December 11, 2013
Bleg: Help Me Come Up with Some Labels
I’m now writing book #7, Against Politics, for Princeton University Press. In it, as part of a critique of the “educative argument for democracy” (the thesis that democracy ennobles us or…
December 09, 2013
The Dialectical Impotence of the Non-Aggression Principle, Redux
Walter Block* defines the non-aggression axiom (sometimes called the non-aggression principle, or NAP for short) as follows: It states, simply, that it shall be legal for anyone to do anything he…
December 06, 2013
Adam Tebble on Redistribution in Light of Past Injustice
Matt Zwolinski recently posted a piece probing the question of whether a unconditional basic income might be a good idea from a broadly libertarian or at least classical liberal perspective….
December 06, 2013
Introduction to Logic
The following argument is unsound: Obama is president. Therefore, libertarianism is true. By pointing out that the argument is unsound, I don’t thereby reveal that I’m secretly a fascist….