July 19, 2013
New SEP Entry on Thomas Paine
I was surprised – and pleased – to learn yesterday that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new entry up on Thomas Paine. The entry came as a surprise because,…
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July 13, 2013
Celebrate Another iRadvent!
Warning: shameless puffery ensues (on a quarterly basis). The third issue of the Molinari Institute’s left-libertarian market-anarchist magazine The Industrial Radical has been published, featuring articles by Less Antman, Jason…
June 12, 2013
The Pinker Angels of Our Nature
Stephen Corry criticises Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond on the diminution-of-violence thesis. (CHT Jesse Walker.) See also my exchange with Matt Zwolinski and Gary Chartier on Pinker here, and my…
June 11, 2013
The Burdens of Judgment
Pew polls reveal that switching from a Republican to a Democratic president causes Republican enthusiasm for NSA surveillance programs to fall by 23 percentage points – and likewise causes Democratic…
May 31, 2013
Guess the Author Time
See if you can guess the author of this quote. No Googling please. Your only hint is that it was written in the mid-1920s. Birth control and the use of…