I’m pro-choice. But here’s an argument against the moral permissibility of abortion I haven’t seen: Recall Singer’s thought experiment about the drowning toddler. DROWNING TODDLER: You are walking alone one…
Robert Nozick, among others, wondered to what degree left-wing conceptions of social justice are mere attempts to valorize envy. (Extreme left-wing views in the US, in particular, tend to concentrated…
Apropos Matt’s recent post: Peter Singer argues we have stringent duties to give to charity. He relies upon a thought experiment: One Drowning Child You come across a child drowning…
I’ve got a series of new videos coming out from Learn Liberty on the problem of poverty. The first one was released last week, and introduces the issue with a…
The current issue of Public Affairs Quarterly (vol. 30, no. 3, July 2015) has a lot to offer readers of this blog. In addition to papers by myself (on why…
I haven’t yet read Josiah Ober’s new book The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (it’s been out of stock in Canada for months) but the presentation I heard on…