The terrible events in Iraq have revived calls for intervention even among those who opposed the 2003 war, and even among some with anti-interventionist sentiments generally. Here I simply…
Adam Gurri has raised a number of good points about Andrew’s post, and I want to offer some remarks of my own. Some of these are versions of points I…
It’s important to make sure that your empirical claims are correct–especially if you’re using them to make arguments that directly affect people’s lives. Last year the World Health Organization published…
Well a good number of them anyway. Allow me to explain… In response to a recent Facebook status of mine that quoted Rand, one commenter expressed his surprise that someone associated…
As someone who leans utilitarian, I often find myself saying the following: “I support Program P in principle but not in practice.” Paternalistic policies, i.e., policies that interfere with people’s…
A topical issue in the global justice literature is territory. Mainstream writers have taken the position that collective entities, including states, are the ultimate title holders of land and resources…