August 21, 2017
Rawls, Ideal Theory, and the Public Goods Argument for the State
It’s been a while since I blogged here and I figure that some shameless self-promotion is the best way to ease back in. As discussed in Jason’s review, I’ve got…
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August 08, 2017
The Bourgeois Argument for Freer Immigration
Donald Trump wants to make immigration merit-based. While many people will reject that view on a variety of grounds, some nonetheless think that admitting educated, wealthier persons is preferable to…
August 02, 2017
Chris Freiman’s Unequivocal Justice
Christopher Freiman has just published a fabulous book, Unequivocal Justice, the first book in Routledge Press’s new “Political Philosophy for the Real World” series. It is a tour de force of philosophical…
July 12, 2017
The Ethics of Funding Disclosure and the Argumentum Ad Kochum
A question for my colleagues in ethics and related areas: what are the obligations to disclose funding sources and possible conflicts of interest in an academic setting? Some are obvious:…
June 24, 2017
Hart, Dworkin, and Trump
Two federal appeals courts have now held that Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration from certain countries is unconstitutional. The 4th Circuit thought that the EO was discriminatory, while the…
June 13, 2017
CFP: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Readers of this blog might be interested in a new series, published by Palgrave and edited by David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Here’s a description from…