I did a short piece for the Chronicle of Higher Education, on the LaCour-Green paper and its aftermath. Excerpt: The subfields of political science are self-correcting interpretive communities. Truth standards…
That’s my new paper at NBER. In it I boil down (and render a bit more systematic) some of the ideas in Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom in order to put…
Like most people, libertarians tend to assume that we have an unconditional right to reproduce. In fact, many assume this right is even more fundamental than a right to free…
Eroding Capitalism: A Comment on Stuart White’s ‘Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit’ Erik Olin Wright Abstract Stuart White argues [in this accompanying article, “Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit”…
As Bernie Sanders laments, there are dozens of varieties of underarm deodorant, even though lots of people starve. We must not have our priorities straight. I don’t have time for…
UPDATE: This was edited after Alexander R. Cohen (rightly) offered critiques on two points: the nature of anti-discrimination law and the unjustified ad hominem nature of some of the claims…Significant…