January 23, 2012
Political Philosophy: The Libertarian State of Play
Hi y’all. Let me take the opportunity to thank Matt and my fellow cobloggers for allowing little ole’ me to join their ranks. Instead of me blathering on about myself,…
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December 31, 2011
Libertarianism and Morality
I intend these comments as a friendly amendment to Matt’s thoughtful post. What implications, if any, does adherence to a political libertarian principle have for other moral issues? The libertarian…
November 13, 2011
A Premise Questioned
I haven’t been posting lately because I’ve been working on topics not directly related to the theme of the blog. I am reading G.A. Cohen’s Rescuing Justice and Equality. It…
October 26, 2011
Gratitude, duty, institutions
This is going to be a quick impressions post– and I hope that getting the conversation started in a public setting will lead me (or someone) to develop the arguments…
September 03, 2011
Violence, Wars, and States
[UPDATE: Due to an error, comments were disabled on the original version of this post. It is being reposted with comments enabled.] Violence is bad news. Individuals should think twice…
August 29, 2011
Libertarianism and the Civil War
A number of commentators to my previous post (to my surprise) agree with Rothbard’s view that the American Civil War was unjust. They support this claim with a variety of…