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April 01, 2016

Trump Is Morally Superior to Clinton, and We Should Keep Him that Way

Trump seems like a real asshole, though it’s possible he’s just saying stupid and vile things because doing so is a smart way to win office. However, it’s worth taking…

March 26, 2016

Why the Adjuncts’ Rights Movement is Anti-Social Justice

Our paper on adjuncts is making a big splash. So far, no one has really disputed the argument. Instead, they focus on our character, about what it says about us that…

March 25, 2016

Did Administrative Bloat Cause Adjunctification?

Phil weighs in, using data and evidence*, here. Some of his main points: US Department of Education data indicates that the full-time faculty to student ratio has remained almost constant…

March 18, 2016

A Dissenting View on Guns: Why Rights-Based Arguments Against Gun Control Fail

Bobby is a brilliant scientist. So brilliant, in fact, that he builds a functional atomic bomb in his garage. Of course, Bobby strictly adheres to the non-aggression principle, so he…

March 16, 2016

Happy Open Borders Day: How to Argue for Immigration Restrictions

In honor of Open Borders Day, here is an excerpt from the current draft of Global Justice as Global Freedom, which Bas and I are writing for Oxford University Press. This excerpt comes…

March 14, 2016

Democracy Works Because It Doesn’t Work

That’s the title of my contribution to “Philosophers on the 2016 US Presidential Race” at Daily Nous.  I briefly hypothesize there that the rise of Donald Trump is in part because…

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