June 18, 2012
Reply to Samuel Freeman: Thick Economic Liberty
[Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a symposium on John Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness. For an introduction to the symposium, click here. For a list of all posts in the symposium,…
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May 22, 2012
Oh, but it’s just a petty violation of liberty.
I’m writing a chapter against compulsory voting for a textbook. Prima facie, we should assume compulsory voting is wrong until shown otherwise. Compulsory voting is, after all, compulsory. When a…
March 16, 2012
A Defense of the Unreasonable
I really enjoyed Kevin’s recent discussion of the ‘contraception mandate,’ particularly because his posts highlight a deep and important divide in political philosophy that I think merits attention. Kevin sketches…
February 20, 2012
Public Roads and the Right to Immiserate Would-Be Immigrants
While writing the section on free immigration for my forthcoming book, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I posted this as my Facebook status: “If you claim to care about…
November 29, 2011
Dear Left: Corporatism Is Your Fault
I’m not usually one for polemics. But sometimes polemics is called for. Here goes. Dear members of the moderate left, America is suffering from rampant, run-away corporatism and crony capitalism….
October 31, 2011
States Must Do Bad
Something a little different from my regular posts. Long ago, Plato asked if we would do better with good rules or good rulers. If we could attain utopia, wherein people…