January 29, 2019

Bullshit Within the Limits of Bare Reason

My review of David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs in the February 2019 issue of Reason magazine is now online. Spoiler alert: it’s not a sequel to Harry Frankfurt’s book.

January 25, 2019

Review: New York 2140

Robinson, Kim Stanley. New York 2140. (Orbit Books, 2017). Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Recurring themes in his stories include ecology, archeological exploration,…

December 20, 2018

Anarchy in Manhattan

The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in New York City, 7-10 January 2019. Here’s the…

September 13, 2018

Looking for Daylight: Minarchist Strategy’s Missteps

Reason magazine editors Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward have recently debated the question of minarchism (i.e., minimal government) vs. free-market anarchism. As an anarchist, I’m obviously on Mangu-Ward’s side of…

September 12, 2018

Reign of Fire

Are the wildfires that have been devastating California a gift from government? So argues William Finnegan in a recent article, “California Burning.” According to Finnegan, the seeds of disaster were…