June 18, 2014
Don’t Dumb Down Justice to Accommodate Bad Motivations
Cohen says, and I agree, that whether something is desirable or better from a moral point of view has nothing to do with whether it’s feasible. It’s not possible for…
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June 16, 2014
Toleration, Cultures, International Issues, and Corporations
This is the fourth (and likely last) post in a series that explains a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
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…
June 16, 2014
The Cohen Fallacy: Why Cohen’s and Rawls’s Arguments about Institutions Are, Well, Garbage
Chapter 3 of Why Not Capitalism? explains why Cohen’s argument for the intrinsic moral superiority of socialism fails. Even though I agree with Cohen that we should not dumb down the…
June 04, 2014
Toleration, Children, Animals, and the Environment
This is the third, though much delayed, post in a series that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
May 30, 2014
A New Essay on Libertarianism and Pollution
A little over a year ago, I published a short essay on libertarianism and pollution at Libertarianism.org. Today I have a new one. It’s much longer – about 8,500 words as opposed…