I’ll write a more serious post tomorrow. But here’s a little lighthearted fun. Nozick is often interpreted as grounding his main arguments in Anarchy, State, and Utopia on self-ownership. People…
I’m going to blog my way through re-reading Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Sometimes I will defend it; sometimes I will criticize it. Sometimes I’ll cite secondary literature, but usually I won’t. Here’s…
Hi, everyone. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. My son Keaton is now 2 1/2 months old, and things have started settling down for me (except that I’m…
Interesting article in the NY Times about the so-called “argumentative theory of reasoning.” The claim, in a nutshell, seems to be that reason developed evolutionarily in order to allow us…
Fernando suggests (below) that rather than complaining that “the incarceration rate in America is too high,” we should complain instead that “America punishes innocent persons” (e.g. drug users). Certainly the…
Like many others, I am alarmed at the rate of incarceration in the United States (Reason magazine has devoted a whole issue to the problem). I also agree that the…