October 06, 2014
A Genuinely Liberal Approach to Religion in Politics
I’m honored to have the lead essay on Cato Unbound this month. In the essay, I lay out what I take to be a genuinely liberal approach to religion in…
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August 20, 2014
Unorganized Play, Ostrom Moments, and the Smoothing of Social Interaction
Libertarian social media have been all atwitter this afternoon with a Lenore Skenazy post at Reason that reports the results of a Reason-Rupe poll showing that: A whopping 83 percent…
July 04, 2014
Hang Tough, Israel
Many of my libertarian friends are relentless critics of Israel. I have taken the liberty of translating this marvelous response by the Argentine writer Marcos Aguinis. “In our postmodern times…
June 16, 2014
Happy Liberalism Day!
Today is Liberalism Day. More info at Liberalism Unrelinquished In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an ascendant cultural outlook that may be termed the liberal outlook. It was…
April 21, 2014
Who Owns the Land?
A topical issue in the global justice literature is territory. Mainstream writers have taken the position that collective entities, including states, are the ultimate title holders of land and resources…
January 24, 2014
The Myth of Religious Violence
Calm down. You might like this post. I’ve just finishing reading William Cavanaugh’s very bold and challenging new book, The Myth of Religious Violence. For Cavanaugh, the myth of religious…