June 29, 2015
Indeed, Why Not Polygamy?
Is it time to grant polygamous marriages the same legal recognition as monogamous marriages? I think it is and here’s why: all of the standard objections to polygamous marriage can…
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June 22, 2015
Cooperation over Coercion: The Importance of Unsupervised Childhood Play for Democracy and Liberalism
I have a new working paper at SSRN on the role of unsupervised childhood play in enabling children to learn the skills and attitudes central to democracy and liberalism. It…
May 21, 2015
True Islamophobia
Virtually everyone abhors the crimes committed by radical Islamists. However, it is difficult these days to criticize Muslim practices that fall short of terrorist violence. These practices include, among others,…
May 10, 2015
Bad Ideas about Trade
In one of its good initiatives, the Obama administration is trying to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership – a multilateral trade treaty with some of the most successful and fast-growing nations West…
March 31, 2015
On Systematic Justifications of Private Property in Rawls, Locke, and Nozick
When students first learn about Rawls’s difference principle, they often assume Rawls intends the principle to be applied directly to every transaction. I can’t accept a pay raise unless this…
January 04, 2015
The Uneasy Marriage of Liberty and Democracy
Michael Huemer writes that if seven friends at the bar decide by a vote of 6 to 1 that you should pay for everyone’s drinks, you are not obligated to…