January 29, 2019
Bullshit Within the Limits of Bare Reason
My review of David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs in the February 2019 issue of Reason magazine is now online. Spoiler alert: it’s not a sequel to Harry Frankfurt’s book.
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January 25, 2019
Review: New York 2140
Robinson, Kim Stanley. New York 2140. (Orbit Books, 2017). Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the best science-fiction writers working today. Recurring themes in his stories include ecology, archeological exploration,…
December 20, 2018
Anarchy in Manhattan
The Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Eastern Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in New York City, 7-10 January 2019. Here’s the…
September 13, 2018
Looking for Daylight: Minarchist Strategy’s Missteps
Reason magazine editors Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward have recently debated the question of minarchism (i.e., minimal government) vs. free-market anarchism. As an anarchist, I’m obviously on Mangu-Ward’s side of…
May 02, 2018
Blast from the Past: 21 Years Ago
I see that a video has recently been posted on YouTube of me, Jacob Levy, David Bernstein, and Richard Geddes on a panel on race, class, and gender at an…
April 13, 2018
Left-Libertarians at Libertopia
Next month (3-6 May) in San Diego I’ll be speaking at the Libertopia conference, which is back after several years’ hiatus. Here’s my topic and abstract: Hoppean Libertarianism as Right-Wing…