A few days ago, Paul Krugman displayed his masterful knowledge of the sociology of the libertarian movement by complaining about all the Ayn Randians running around advocating for a Basic…
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest contribution by Adam Gurri. Adam is a founder of Sweet Talk and a writer at The Ümlaut. He is currently working on a book…
This month, Cato Unbound is hosting a month-long debate on “The Basic Income and the Welfare State.” My lead essay, “The Pragmatic Libertarian Case for a Basic Income Guarantee” is…
Sometimes you write a book to tell people what you think. But sometimes you write a book to find out what you think. Several years ago, a chance encounter with…
Back in December of 2011, I posted “Licensing Parents,” defending a view Hugh LaFollette had introduced into philosophical literature in 1980: that the state should license parents (LaFollette further defended…
In “Faith and Force,” Rand is not so nice to Kant: What Kant propounded was full, total, abject selflessness: he held that an action is moral only if you perform…