My employer, Georgetown University, is one of the universities involved in /victimized by the recent admissions scandals. In 2017, we fired tennis coach Gordie Ernst for “admissions irregularities”; he is…
St. Olaf College hosted a forum on immigration and national sovereignty last night, with Jan Ting, Natalie Molina, and me. You can watch the video of it here: https://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?e=2425 A…
The argument seems to be this: “Your house has walls, doesn’t it? Well, then, you must on pain of consistency hold that it’s right to put a wall around the…
Here are two podcasts with me on *When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice*, which is one of Stephen Carter’s favorite fifteen non-fiction books of 2018…
The commonsense theory of self-defense that everyone understands and accepts: “You may use proportional force if it is necessary to stop an attacker from severely harming your or violating your…
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, the proverb goes. If so, let’s hope it doesn’t end there. Ari Armstrong recently released What’s Wrong with Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. It’s an engaging…