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March 31, 2014

Libertarianism and Sex Work- Continuing the Conversation

Sarah and Steve recently highlighted a range of views that libertarians can hold regarding pornography. Their point was that libertarians all hold that pornography should not be illegal, but people…

March 06, 2014

Global Justice and the Problem of Kleptocracies

The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…

February 03, 2014

We Look Up To Households That Make Consensual Decisions And We’re Not Sorry

(Co-Authored with Sarah Skwire) Recently, the blogger Amy Glass from ThoughtCatalog posted a piece titled “I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry.” We…

December 22, 2013

A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part III: If the Exchange Setting is NOT Euvoluntary, What Then?

I left off the previous edition (part II) (and here’s part I) of the five part series this way: What does voluntary mean? Is it sufficient that consent not be…

October 23, 2013

Circumstances and the Ethics of Markets

I am so happy to see that Japa Pallikkathayil is blogging over at Political Philosop-her. I’ve always liked Japa’s work and I think her Philosopher’s Imprint essay about coercion is…

October 21, 2013

Whatchya Got Under There, Sweetie?–Joking and the TSA

I travelled a lot when I was pregnant with my daughters. During one of those trips, the TSA agent “helping me” watched me load my carry-on bag onto the conveyor…

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