June 15, 2013
What Global Justice Should Be About: A Preview
Here are the projected introductory paragraphs of the book we have (almost!) completed with Loren Lomasky: What do we owe distant others? In this book we offer a simple answer…
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June 11, 2013
A Few Simple Questions
I spent last weekend at the inaugural conference of a new organization for libertarian women called Libertia. We talked about a lot of different things, but a topic we kept…
June 10, 2013
If Freedom Is So Great, Why Won’t Our Masters Free Us?
Michael Lind asks a question. E. J. Dionne gives an answer. Over at C4SS I criticise both.
June 06, 2013
Pinker on Social Dominance
From The Better Angels of Our Nature: The dark side of our communal feelings is a desire for our own group to dominate another group, no matter how we feel about…
June 04, 2013
Brink Lindsey on the NAP and Moral Foundations
Brink Lindsey’s contribution to the aforementioned “Foundations Week” at Libertarianism.org is now up. Its title is “Life’s More Complicated than the Non-Aggression Principle,” and much of the post is devoted…
June 03, 2013
The Foundations of Libertarianism
Recently, I concluded a critical essay on the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) by making the following claim: there comes a point where adding another layer of epicycles to one’s theory seems no…