April 17, 2012
CFP for Molinari Society December 2012 Symposium on Anarchy
The Molinari Society has posted a call for papers on anarchism for the 2012 Eastern APA in Atlanta. Submissions welcome!
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April 16, 2012
Baboons Build Their Own Cages, Don’t They?
I wasn’t much of a student in HS and before — my attentions were directed elsewhere — but I had a few highlight moments where the material and ideas being…
April 13, 2012
Market Democracy and Bleeding Heart Libertarianism: Trivial, Boring, and Empty
I’m a big fan of Tomasi’s new book. However, rather than promote it, I’ll attack it. Worse, for this exercise, I’ll be unfair. I’ll articulate some objections that I believe…
April 13, 2012
Can you sell your future self into slavery?
Liberty of contract is a really important right, and legal restrictions on liberty of contract are offensively paternalistic, and are sometimes racist or sexist attempts to entrench the advantage of…
April 10, 2012
Occupy the Mind — Nozick Edition. It ain’t ideology, it’s institutional analysis
On p. 272 of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Nozick writes the following: Economically well-off persons desire greater political power, in a nonminimal state, because they can sue this power to…
April 09, 2012
Modern Libertarianism — Robert Nozick Process Theorist
Today we will be discussing the contributions of Robert Nozick to modern social philosophy and political economy. It is my impression, perhaps wrong, that most philosophers and political theorists focus…