January 08, 2020
Molinari Society Location Update
According to the printed program, the Molinari Society’s session at 9:00 tomorrow morning is in Seminar A. This is a cruel lie. We are actually in Phillips Boardroom 3. Okay,…
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December 20, 2019
Anarchy in Philadelphia
The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Philadelphia, 8-11 January 2020. Here’s the schedule info:…
September 06, 2019
Do We Need Government? No, But You Need This Anthology
A long-awaited anthology I’m scheduled to appear in (with a couple of pieces on the question “Do We Need Government?”) has now, I hear, been split into two – one…
July 22, 2019
Epistemic Liberalism and Open Borders
The following interview is republished from the blog at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London, a leading research center examining how formal and informal…
June 19, 2019
Commercial Republicanism: A New Center-Right Governing Philosophy
Editor’s Note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from the Niskanen’s Center “Defending the Open Society” series. Read more here. You can read more from Robert S. Taylor on…
June 11, 2019
Randians vs. Stoics
Stoicism, particularly in its ethical and political aspects (a defense of individual self-mastery on the one hand and commercial society on the other – for the latter, see, e.g., Cicero’s…