August 25, 2015
The Essential Tension
Of potential interest to BHL readers: I have a review of Jacob Levy’s book Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in the newest (October 2015) issue of Reason. (It’s also available online,…
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August 19, 2015
On Singer’s Thought Experiment
Apropos Matt’s recent post: Peter Singer argues we have stringent duties to give to charity. He relies upon a thought experiment: One Drowning Child You come across a child drowning…
July 10, 2015
The Meaning of Money
Anti-commodification theorists often complain that putting certain things up for sale violates the meaning of those goods or expresses certain negative attitudes towards those goods. As part of our response,…
July 09, 2015
Markets without Symbolic Limits
Peter Jaworski and I just published an article by that name in Ethics. (You’ll need JSTOR access to read it, or you can email me for a copy.) This article also forms…
June 29, 2015
More on Polygamy
Chris Freiman asks: why not polygamy? For related discusison, see also my 2012 review of Elizabeth Brake’s book on the subject, which advocates extending marital law not only to but…
June 23, 2015
Ilya Somin on Eminent Domain
The recent book by Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: “Kelo v. City of New London” and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a key contribution to the…