Defining Social Justice, Etc.

[Note: Sorry for the strange lack of paragraph breaks under the fold. I don’t know how to fix this.] David Friedman is worried that the term “social justice” has no…

Libertarian Human Rights?

Some of my academic work deals with international issues. As a result, I read a lot about the philosophy of human rights. It’s hard to read this literature without noticing…

Help Caplan Help the Poor

Bryan Caplan doesn’t think he has a moral duty to help the poor. I disagree. But, duty or no, Bryan wants to help them anyway. And he wants your help to do…

Arneson on Egalitarianism at the SEP

My friend and colleague-of-sorts (at USD’s Institute for Law and Philosophy) Richard Arneson has revised the entry on “Egalitarianism” at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think many readers of…