February 19, 2015

Parental Rights and the Obligation to Care

Murray Rothbard famously argued that parents have the right to neglect or abandon their children because they have acquired no obligation to care for them. In my forthcoming book, I…

February 02, 2015

Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America

That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…

October 30, 2014

Crony Capitalism, Inequality, and the Zombie Apocalypse

BHL readers might enjoy two things of mine that came out today. The first is my monthly column “The Calling” at the Future of Freedom Foundation that addresses the ways…

September 11, 2014

More on Libertarianism and Race

Over at the Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch, I have some thoughts on how libertarianism might be able to get around the left-right logjam in talking about race, especially in light…

September 04, 2014

When Fear of Victim Blaming Leads to More Victims

Today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed (may be gated) has a long piece on the connection between student alcohol use and campus sexual assault. Those of us in the trenches, especially with first-year…

August 30, 2014

CFP: Spontaneous Order in Economic and Political Thought from Smith to Hayek and Beyond

CALL FOR PAPERS The interdisciplinary journal Cosmos+Taxis is issuing a call for papers for its second conference on spontaneous orders, to be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology from…