November 26, 2012
Some Principles
Recent events in the Middle East have prompted vigorous exchanges on this site. Definitive judgments regarding these matters depend on detailed historical analysis; and engaging in historical inquiry is not…
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November 24, 2012
Libertarianism, Self-Defense, and Innocent Shields
Suppose A is unjustly attacking V, and using I as an “innocent shield.” In other words, A has positioned himself (or I) in such a way as to make it…
November 23, 2012
Let’s Talk Fundamentals: Israel is Not The Problem and Israel Does Not Have The Solution
[Editor’s Note: In the interest of continuing and deepening our discussion of issues pertaining to the current conflict in Gaza, and of the implications of libertarian thought for issues of foreign…
November 22, 2012
Roderick Long on Race, Gender, Equality and Libertarianism
“We don’t have the right to subordinate other people to our ends or treat them as objects for our uses,” says Roderick Long. “And that is a fundamental kind of…
November 21, 2012
Libertarianism, Israel, and Palestine – A Different View
[Editor’s Note: Toward the goal of fostering a deeper discussion of issues pertaining to the current conflict in Gaza, and of the implications of libertarian thought for issues of foreign…
November 21, 2012
Sigh.
Brian Leiter, who often mocks the ignorant and semiliterate invocations of philosophical ideas that bounce around the media, links approvingly [see his response in comments] to the following claim that manages…