March 19, 2013
Tomasi Part III
Last set of comments on Tomasi. Today: ideal theory, and the argument for social justice. Justice in Fairyland When Tomasi was writing Free Market Fairness, I predicted it would…
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March 18, 2013
Tomasi Workshop Part II
Here’s part II of my comments on Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness for the Pacific APA. Much of this material today will be familiar to regular readers of this blog. Tomorrow I’ll post…
March 15, 2013
Tomasi Book Workshop Part I
The Pacific APA is holding an author meets critics session on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness in late March. I’m one of the critics, along with Steve Wall and Paul Gowder….
March 14, 2013
Jason Brennan Did Not Like Gary Chartier’s New Book
My review of Chartier’s most recent book is here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/38159-anarchy-and-legal-order-law-and-politics-for-a-stateless-society/ Perhaps I have the minority point of view here. Tesón calls it “required reading”. Zwolinski says that book is “one of…
February 16, 2013
Hey, Ann Coulter
Advocating having other people fight isn’t bravery. Advocating not sending them to fight isn’t cowardice. Duh. UPDATE: This in response to Coulter, at SFL, calling libertarians [bleep! cowards] for…
February 11, 2013
Against Moralized Conceptions of Liberty
Matt Z. comments here. I concur. I’ll add a quotation from Schmidtz and Brennan 2010: Some theorists think a minimal set of protected negative liberties is all people need to…