Andreas Wolkenstein writes to inform me that he is organizing a workshop on “The Current State of Libertarian Philosophy” at MANCEPT 2014 (Manchester, UK, September 8-10, 2014). Check out the…
The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…
My essay Hugo Grotius on War and the State has been posted on Liberty Matters, the online scholarly site of the Liberty Fund. I claim, among other things, that while Grotius’ jurisprudential method…
The Institute for Humane Studies asked me to give a short talk to a group of undergrads at ISFLC who expressed an interest in grad school. Here, roughly, is the…
Via David Sobel and Peter Vallentyne, here’s a Call for Papers for the Second Annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy: Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that…
The United States broke away from mercantilist England and stood, though imperfectly, for liberty (including economic liberty) and for property rights. These two ideals are right not only for their economic and productive fruits…