July 26, 2016
You Can’t Get There From Here? A Reply to Magness
Phil Magness replies to my post by advancing a new argument that while the UBI might be a fine policy, we can’t get to it from our present circumstances. If…
Author: Kevin Vallier
July 25, 2016
The UBI in Non-Ideal Theory and Ideal Theory
Phil Magness has complained, at length, on Facebook that proponents of a universal basic income (UBI) like myself have failed to grasp with various “public choice” problems that would surely…
July 15, 2016
Religious Toleration Generalized: A Quick Case for Public Reason Liberalism
I’m busy writing a book defending public reason liberalism, which explains my blogging hiatus. J can blog and write books at the same time; that has proven hard for me. So I’ll…
April 19, 2016
CFP: The First Annual PPE Society Meeting, March 17-19th, 2017
The new PPE Society is planning its first stand-alone meeting forMarch 17-19 2017 in New Orleans. With that event in mind we are now doing a CALL FOR PROPOSALS and SUBMISSIONS. On…
April 13, 2016
On the Over-Politicization of Bathroom Norms
One of the most important insights of both the classical liberal tradition and the new and the growing (and not necessarily classical liberal) multi-disciplinary study of social norms is that…
March 06, 2016
The Libertarian Position on Religion in Public Life
In this post, I want to briefly state what I take to be the most defensible libertarian approach to religious contributions to public life. I’ve been writing on why libertarians…