I’m delighted to announce an exciting new Society that will be of interest to readers of this ‘blog: The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Its webpage is here: http://ppesociety.web.unc.edu/ Membership is…
This week we’ve had evidence of two astonishingly rapid tipping points in American public norms, both toward greater equality. In less than twenty years, the United States has moved from…
Since I cover the religion beat here at BHL, I figure I’ll share my thoughts on Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato Si′, as a Lutheran libertarian with Catholic (specifically Thomistic)…
Some time ago I wrote a short piece on my experiences in attending a meeting of the Planning Board of Hopewell Township, NJ.. In brief, when I asked for the…
The recent book by Ilya Somin, The Grasping Hand: “Kelo v. City of New London” and the Limits of Eminent Domain (University of Chicago Press, 2015) is a key contribution to the…
I have a new working paper at SSRN on the role of unsupervised childhood play in enabling children to learn the skills and attitudes central to democracy and liberalism. It…