Last month there was some controversy about a proposal from a Wisconsin state representative to prevent the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cards for shellfish, among other things….
Of general interest to readers of this blog: over at C4SS, Billy Christmas has a review, from a left-libertarian perspective, of John Tomasi’s book Free Market Fairness.
It’s the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. It’s also the day after a white man went into one of the most important black churches in the history of…
Here. I certainly think he’s broadly right: the median libertarian is less absolutist than when Bryan and I argued about minarchy and anarchy back in the stone age of the…
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…
Aeon Ideas will host a short debate about living high while people die. Check out my essay here. Excerpt: I wish people bought fewer luxury goods and gave more. Still,…