April 10, 2014
Liberty in the Academic Journals
Keeping up with new articles in the academic journals can be difficult. Especially for those of us with an interdisciplinary interest in liberty, it often feels like there are just…
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April 10, 2014
The Government Is Not Us (Democratic Theory Edition)
Jason has correctly complained about claims that we are the government. He cites a ridiculous Salon article, but here’s a nice example from President Obama himself: You hear some of…
April 07, 2014
Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? Ideal Theory Conference, April 25th-26th, 2014
For those of you interested in the nonideal/ideal theory debate in political philosophy (the one Jacob has just written a lovely paper about), I thought I’d let you know that…
April 07, 2014
“There Is No Such Thing As Ideal Theory”
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
March 31, 2014
Libertarianism and Sex Work- Continuing the Conversation
Sarah and Steve recently highlighted a range of views that libertarians can hold regarding pornography. Their point was that libertarians all hold that pornography should not be illegal, but people…
March 17, 2014
Basing Libertarianism in the Harm Principle
This is the second in a small series of posts that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is here….