June 26, 2014
Loren Lomasky: Taxation is Not Theft
I recently had occasion to re-read Loren Lomasky’s wonderful article, “Libertarianism as if (the other 99 Percent of) People Mattered.” I wish I could find an un-gated version of it online,…
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June 25, 2014
Property-Owning Democracy: From BHL to a Philosophy Journal
Some of you may recall that I wrote a series of blog posts criticizing Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy and the arguments offered for it. I received enough good feedback…
June 24, 2014
Mark LeBar on Justice as a Virtue
Here is an intellectual feast: a Podcast interview with Mark LeBar, at Free Thoughts, on the virtue of justice. In one hour you get an in-depth historical discussion of how…
June 22, 2014
Eric Mack on Robert Nozick at the SEP
Over at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Eric Mack has an excellent (and long overdue) new entry on Robert Nozick’s political philosophy. The essay covers Nozick’s theory of rights as…
June 17, 2014
Whose Left? Which Libertarianism?
Over at C4SS I’ve posted the abstract to a paper on Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects that I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 Workshop on the Current…
June 13, 2014
Piketty’s Philosophical Problems in 250 Words
Here’s a quick summary of the philosophical problems with Capital in the 21st Century, with links substantiating these claims. Increasing inequalities of income and wealth are problematic from a moral…