March 15, 2015
BHL @ ILS
The (Canadian) Institute for Liberal Studies holds an annual student seminar, “Freedom Week.” This year’s, August 10-15 in Montreal, includes as faculty lecturers BHLers Steve Horwitz, Mike Munger, and me,…
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March 12, 2015
Last Call: The Origins of Radical Libertarianism in America
As I mentioned before on this blog, I’m running a Virtual Reading Group with Students for Liberty this semester on “The Origins of Radical Libertarian Thought in America.” The start…
February 27, 2015
Should You Go to Grad School?
UPDATE: If you have honest questions about grad school, I’d be happy to answer them as best I can. Periodically, I give talks about professionalization in the academy to prospective…
February 25, 2015
Jason Kuznicki on mores
Here, using Montesquieu (and me, but me channeling Montesquieu) as a point of departure for his own very lively thoughts about classical liberalism and modern libertarianism: We can of course…
February 24, 2015
The Faculty Meeting as Tragedy of the Commons
Almost nobody likes faculty meetings. So why do they always seem to run on forever? If we all hate them so much, why don’t we just stop? I have a theory. We…
February 22, 2015
Our Universities Have Gone {ableist slur}!
At first I honestly thought that this was a satire, and not a very well-conceived one. Satire, to be effective, has to be somewhat plausible, at least at the outset….