June 10, 2016

Libertarianism and the Varieties of Virtue

In Reason, William Ruger and Jason Sorens seek to offer an alternative to the sort of thick libertarianism to which many of those associated with the Center for a Stateless…

June 08, 2016

Is our desire to obfuscate exchange helpful, or just cynical?

Gabriel Rossman has the lead essay over at Cato Unbound. I follow up…here. More soon…. A big question: do we obfuscate so we can deny? Or is there something more…

June 07, 2016

Natural Disasters and the Bourgeois Virtues

Here’s me at the Wall Street Journal in the June 8th issue talking about the role of the private sector in providing disaster relief during the For McMurray fire: “Tristin Hopper of…

June 03, 2016

Against Biblical Literalism

And now for something completely different. I’m not religious, so I have no dog in this fight. But here’s a quick take on Biblical literalism, and why, to me, it…

May 25, 2016

Rejecting Capitalism

A recent WaPo article had this shrill headline: “Majority of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows.” I thought that was (at least) misleading as a way of interpreting the data….

May 18, 2016

The Problem Doesn’t Stop With Amtrak

Amtrak is in legal trouble. The rail service provider has long enjoyed an anomalous legal status, as a for-profit corporation created by the U.S. government. But in 2008, the Passenger…