September 26, 2017
What Kneeling Athletes Reveal about Political Psychology
Today at the Princeton University Press blog, I have a post on the current controversy and what it tells us about how people “think” about politics. Some excerpts: …
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September 24, 2017
The Case for Colonialism: Don’t retract, rebut…. and censure those who seek to silence.
In a recent paper entitled “The case for colonialism” Bruce Gilley argued that “Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the…
September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…
September 12, 2017
Two Short Points in Defense of Price Gouging
Over at the New York Times, Andrew Sorkin has a rather incredulous piece on hurricane price gouging. The piece mentions some of my work on the topic, as well as…
September 05, 2017
Can you be a libertarian racist or anti-Semite?
No. OK, now we’ve got that out of the way, here’s why:
August 10, 2017
Chuck ’em out! The politicians who proposed the RAISE Act are INELIGIBLE to live in the United States!
I wonder if the politicians who proposed the RAISE (Really Asinine Idea to Stimulate Emigration) Act would be allowed into the United States? Let’s see….