December 11, 2018
*When All Else Fails* Is Out!
I’m pleased to report my ninth book, When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice is now out with Princeton University Press. Read chapter one here. Kit Wellman’s…
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December 07, 2018
When Non-Violence Isn’t Enough at Reason
Today at Reason, I have a longer write-up summarizing some of the main moves I make in When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice. Read it here. If…
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 01, 2018
Denying Asylum ≠ Justifying Deportation; Open Borders ≠ Universal Asylum
A Facebook exchange today illustrated how some people conflate A) open borders with B) granting asylum to everyone. Or, perhaps, they conflate A) denying asylum to asylum seekers with B)…
May 22, 2018
Against International Law’s Economic Agnosticism
International law does not generally protect economic liberties. By economic liberties I mean private property rights and freedom of contract, including the individual right to trade. Even if we could…