I wrote a short letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education in response to Jason Stanley’s “Fascism and the University” that can be found here. An excerpt: The case for…
In his recent defense of socialism, Corey Robin writes: The socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends…
Are the wildfires that have been devastating California a gift from government? So argues William Finnegan in a recent article, “California Burning.” According to Finnegan, the seeds of disaster were…
In an interview with Inside Higher Education, Jason Stanley makes a number of claims about academic freedom and support for free-market capitalism that are worth questioning. Stanley rightly calls out…
Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…
As children die of hunger in Venezuela, an old line is making a comeback: it’s not real socialism! One version of this reply alleges that socialism requires that workers directly…