I’m very pleased to announce that The College of New Jersey will be co-hosting a weekend seminar with the IHS on the theme of “Liberty and Justice”. This will start…
Michael Huemer writes that if seven friends at the bar decide by a vote of 6 to 1 that you should pay for everyone’s drinks, you are not obligated to…
A little bit of light relief at the end of the semester… My wife and I used to own a small grey Persian cat, called “Peen”. Peen had a number…
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…
WHY THERE’S NO DUTY TO VOTE Most Americans believe there’s a duty to vote; at least, they’ll say they believe in such a duty when answering surveys. But why hold there’s such…
UPDATE: I had Reich’s nickname wrong in the original post–please note that this is about the Robert Reich at Berkeley, not the Rob Reich at Stanford. Here’s Robert Reich, former…