December 14, 2019
I Get Ink
A good thing just arrived by mail – a first edition of Francis Dashwood Tandy’s 1896 free-market anarchist classic Voluntary Socialism, autographed by the author. And for only $25! Usually…
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February 27, 2019
Forthcoming Anthology on Dialectical Libertarianism
Check out Chris Matthew Sciabarra’s announcement for his forthcoming anthology Dialectics of Liberty: Exploring the Context of Human Freedom (edited by Sciabarra, Roger Bissell, and Edward Younkins) here, and the…
October 02, 2018
For Whom the Heart Bleeds
In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I respond to supposedly “left-wing” opposition to open borders. Leftist opposition to open borders is especially puzzling. It usually begins with the controversial empirical…
September 14, 2018
Hassoun’s Argument for Global Redistribution
In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I wonder why so much of the global justice literature defends the opposite conclusions of development economics. Philosophers ignore or more often denigrate property…
August 14, 2018
Socialism: What’s in a Word?
Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…
July 02, 2018
Why Are Some Libertarians So Conservative About Immigration?
I frequently hear libertarians object to open borders on the grounds that removing immigration restrictions would immediately and radically disrupt American culture. Aside from the empirical reasons for thinking this…