In the previous post in this series, I discussed the natural law foundation of Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty, and suggested that it runs into difficulties with David Hume’s famous “is-ought” problem. In…
More from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, now available for Kindle! Some people mistakenly believe that libertarians think our only moral obligation to one another is to respect one another’s…
Some excerpts from Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (which is once again in stock at Amazon). [Please excuse the inconsistent capitalization of “left”. That’s because I’m grabbing text from different…
In his interesting article in Reason magazine Ron Paul: Man of the Left (p. 35) Brian Doherty says nice things about bleeding-heart libertarians in general, and John Tomasi in particular.
Books in Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know series take a question-and-answer format. They are intended to be advanced introductions, the kind of thing both a high school…
I wrote another post at the Princeton University Press blog. This summarizes the theories of rational ignorance and rational irrationality, while also explaining some findings in political psychology. http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2012/09/17/jason-brennan-on-why-were-dumb-at-politics/ Excerpt:…