Mr. Jefferson’s University

In 2012, a student was violently raped by a group of fraternity members at the University of Virginia, a story that was recently re-told by Sabrina Rubin Erdely in Rolling…

Retaliation and Extortion: More on the Morality of Killing Government Agents in Self-Defense or Defense of Others

Here is another excerpt from the current draft of “When May We Kill Government Agents?”. This section appears after I’ve debunked (or tried to debunk) a range of arguments for…

Montesquieu quote of the day

“Political liberty consists in security, or, at least, in the opinion that we enjoy security. This security is never more dangerously attacked than in public or private accusations. It is,…

When May We Kill Government Agents? In Defense of Moral Parity

That’s the title of a paper I’ll be presenting at the Morality of Aggression conference in Tucson in early December. I haven’t done any work on this in recent months,…

New Data Site from Cato

For those who like to delve into data (but not collect it), “Cato’s new database Humanprogress.org is now live! Humanprogress.org is a comprehensive database that aims at spreading rational optimism to people…

November 11, 2014

Response to Jason Brennan

I disagree so much with Jason Brennan’s post that I don’t know where to begin, and certainly I can’t put it all here. The US has provided for many years, at…

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November 26, 2014