September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…
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August 21, 2017
Rawls, Ideal Theory, and the Public Goods Argument for the State
It’s been a while since I blogged here and I figure that some shameless self-promotion is the best way to ease back in. As discussed in Jason’s review, I’ve got…
August 04, 2017
The Rhetoric of Libertarians and the Unfortunate Appeal to the Alt-Right
One of my most clicked-on posts here at BHL was this one on Ron Paul’s newsletters and why they still mattered 20 years after they were published. In that piece,…
August 02, 2017
Chris Freiman’s Unequivocal Justice
Christopher Freiman has just published a fabulous book, Unequivocal Justice, the first book in Routledge Press’s new “Political Philosophy for the Real World” series. It is a tour de force of philosophical…
July 26, 2017
William Graham Sumner and “Social Darwinism”
Over at Liberty Fund’s “Liberty Matters” site, I have an essay on the neglected political ideas of William Graham Sumner. Here’s a bit from the beginning: History has not been…
July 12, 2017
The Ethics of Funding Disclosure and the Argumentum Ad Kochum
A question for my colleagues in ethics and related areas: what are the obligations to disclose funding sources and possible conflicts of interest in an academic setting? Some are obvious:…