The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new essay up on Friedrich Hayek. This is good news. Here’s some even better news: it is written by David Schmidtz. For those of you…
Modern political philosophers (such as Rawls, Dworkin, and others) have tried to reconcile the traditional liberal concern for liberty with the demands of distributive justice, the latter understood as a…
The welfare state is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. How did individuals and societies meet the needs of the poor before its emergence? And how might they deal with those…
More on this topic here: http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2012/08/16/will-the-bad-voters-please-step-forward-more-from-jason-brennan/
When I see people with an “I Voted!” sticker, my first thought is, “Shame on you!” See my post at the Princeton University Press blog here.
Dierdre McCloskey refutes Michael Sandel’s last book here. Worth reading the entire thing.