December 22, 2019
Quote of the Day
One of the tragic aspects of the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861 was that while the serfs gained their personal freedom, the land – their means of…
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November 13, 2019
Hayek, Freedom, and the Universal Basic Income
Friedrich Hayek was a champion of free markets, limited government, and “a certain minimum income for everyone … a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he…
July 22, 2019
Epistemic Liberalism and Open Borders
The following interview is republished from the blog at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London, a leading research center examining how formal and informal…
May 31, 2019
What Would a Basic Income Look Like?
Lots of folks who are sympathetic to the idea of a basic income guarantee, and many folks who aren’t, have questions about the details of what such a policy would…
May 13, 2019
Smashing Fences and Fascists
I’m excited to announce the publication of two new anthologies from C4SS (the Center for a Stateless Society): The Anatomy of Escape: A Defense of the Commons (357 pp.; buy…
April 11, 2019
Open Borders and Self-Determination
One of the main philosophical arguments against free immigration that Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan seek to rebut in their excellent In Defense of Openness is an argument…