February 28, 2012
What About Children?
Say you think that all autonomous people are entitled to make decisions without state interference, even if those decisions are ultimately self-harming. You may then notice that there are a…
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February 21, 2012
A Libertarian Rehabilitation of Hobbes
I think that libertarian hostility to Hobbes has blinded them to one of his deepest insights, an insight that in many ways makes him less authoritarian than many of the…
February 20, 2012
Public Roads and the Right to Immiserate Would-Be Immigrants
While writing the section on free immigration for my forthcoming book, Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know, I posted this as my Facebook status: “If you claim to care about…
February 15, 2012
Contractualism
I think the right political theory is some form of contractualism. In this post, I will explain what I mean by contractualism and address some common but confused objections to…
February 13, 2012
Political Philosophy’s Fundamental Question
In this post, my aim is to identify political philosophy’s fundamental question. Yes, I want to attempt this in a blog post, so my answer will undoubtedly be radically incomplete….
February 10, 2012
Twelve Theses on Libertarian Eudaimonism
Obviously each of these following steps would need more explication and defense than I’m giving here. The picture is also a bit oversimplified, since (for one thing) it concerns reciprocal…