Editor’s Note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from the Niskanen’s Center “Defending the Open Society” series. Read more here. You can read more from Robert S. Taylor on…
I’m excited to announce the publication of two new anthologies from C4SS (the Center for a Stateless Society): The Anatomy of Escape: A Defense of the Commons (357 pp.; buy…
Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…
Some speculation: Tolerance–of differing religions, behaviors, lifestyles, attitudes, political ideologies, speech patterns, languages, etc–brings a wide range of benefits. Tolerance facilities the free exchange of ideas and goods, and in…
International law does not generally protect economic liberties. By economic liberties I mean private property rights and freedom of contract, including the individual right to trade. Even if we could…
The basic idea behind the public reason project: To justify imposing some norm, law, policy, or rule P on reasonable people, you need to show that they have sufficient reason…