Always make sure to read the prefaces and introductions to Nozick’s books. They’re fascinating. Nozick is smarter than you. If you and he had a live debate about something (anything),…
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…
I’m reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I had never read anything by her. The references I had were mixed: praise by some libertarians; condemnation by others; Nozick’s piece “On the…
Ordinary people often give surprisingly bad arguments against libertarian conclusions. Take, for example, the libertarian case for open immigration. One of the most common responses to this proposal is the…