April 09, 2014
On Begging Questions
I think the non-aggression principle is true, but sort of useless in an argument with a non-libertarian. It’s a conclusion, not a premise. Similarly, I think it’s true that we’re…
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March 10, 2014
Why Individualism Needs the Family
Defenders of individual liberty need the family, perhaps more than they know. Individualists need to acknowledge the importance of the family for the sake of theoretical completeness and for the…
March 06, 2014
Global Justice and the Problem of Kleptocracies
The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…
March 03, 2014
Grotius and Me
My essay Hugo Grotius on War and the State has been posted on Liberty Matters, the online scholarly site of the Liberty Fund. I claim, among other things, that while Grotius’ jurisprudential method…
December 20, 2013
Matt Walsh on Homeschooling
Some politicians want to make it harder to homeschool your children. Others want to outright ban homeschooling, and some countries already do. Matt Walsh as a strongly worded response: There…
December 10, 2013
A Libertarian Mungerfesto, Part II: Voluntary Exchange, Euvoluntary Exchange, and the Case for Cooperation.
(A prefatory note: Most of the references are omitted. This is a summary, not an academic paper. Some of the argument here is adapted from Guzman and Munger, 2013) …