April 07, 2015
Bigotry
Ross Douthat recently pointed out that people are using the term “bigotry” much more broadly in the case of people objecting to same-sex marriage. My experience is similar. I’ve had more…
Author: Kevin Vallier
March 25, 2015
Religious Exemptions Conference
Hi folks. I thought I’d throw up a reminder for anyone interested that Bowling Green State University is hosting a conference, “The Scope of Religious Exemptions,” on April 17th and…
March 23, 2015
Libertarian Strategy in a Non-Ideal World
I’ve recently finished an early ms of Gerald Gaus’s next book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, which argues, among other things, that we need to know the shape of the…
February 26, 2015
On Attacking ISIS
Libertarians are rightly skeptical of military interventions. A simple reason is that military interventions tend to do more harm than good. This simple reason was enough to justify opposition to the…
February 19, 2015
Piketty, Returns to Capital, and Public Pension Privatization
One of the more common complaints about Piketty’s model of capital inequality in Capital in the 21st Century is that it does not properly account for diminishing returns to the accumulation of…
January 29, 2015
Theism and Philosophical Left-Libertarianism
At a philosophy of religion conference last year, I met one of the great 40-something theistic philosophers, Trent Dougherty. Trent completed his MA at the University of Missouri, where he was…