A while back, David Schmidtz and I had a discussion  about the concept of liberty with Philip Pettit, John Christman, and Tom Palmer on Cato Unbound. In our essay and book, Schmidtz…

We often equate freedom with an absence of constraints, impediments, or interference. For instance, you have free speech when no one stops you from speaking your mind. Philosophers call this…

If you were to catalog all the ways people use the words “freedom” or “liberty”, you’d probably come up with a pretty long list. (Here’s an experiment: Search your iTunes…

I’m going to have a few posts on liberty. In particular, I will explain why the libertarian opposition to positive liberty is misguided.  If you’re going to philosophize about liberty,…