Criminal Law and Philosophy just published my paper “Consequences Matter More: In Defense of Instrumentalism on Private versus Public Prisons,” critiquing Alon Harel’s Why Law Matters. Abstract: Alon Harel wants to show that punishment…
Are you a junior faculty member (broadly construed to include post-docs, tenure-track assistant professors, non-tenure-track visiting professors, lecturers, instructors, or adjuncts)? Are you done or almost done with a draft…
I had occasion recently to read some of Akerlof and Shiller’s new book Phishing for Phools. I found it, to be perfectly blunt, infuriating. The book is paternalistic. It assumes that free…
William Irwin’s latest book, The Free Market Existentialist, is a novel attempt to ground libertarian political theory in existentialism. Irwin grants the difficulty of the task before him from the…
My Reason review of Jacob Levy’s Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom, formerly behind a paywall, is now free online.
Years ago, Harry Frankfurt (of On Bullshit* fame) wrote a series of essays arguing that equality is of no intrinsic importance. What matters is that people have enough, not that they are…