Critics of effective altruism tend to focus their critiques against the seemingly utilitarian foundations of the movement. They ask, what about special obligations? Demandingness? Is this overly cosmopolitan? What about institutional/collective…
Almost everyone has by now accepted the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The new Palestinian state would be created in the territory west of the Jordan River (the parties…
Patrick Lynch wrote an interesting and provocative piece the other day arguing that immigration restrictions are consistent with libertarianism. An earlier post of mine explains why I disagree but I…
The book I wrote with Loren Lomasky, Justice at a Distance: Expanding Freedom Globally (Cambridge University Press), has been published after several years of germination. I blogged about the book some time…
My Reason review of Jacob Levy’s Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom, formerly behind a paywall, is now free online.
This has been the summer of immigration. And it’s not a good thing. The violence in Syria alone has caused millions of people to seek refuge in Europe. And Europe,…