June 26, 2019
Euvoluntary Exchange
Exchange is always a balance between non-worseness and euvoluntarity. A subject that Matt Zwolinski has also discussed, as I point out…. Also, Post v. Jones is an excellent case to…
June 19, 2019
Commercial Republicanism: A New Center-Right Governing Philosophy
Editor’s Note: The following essay is reprinted with permission from the Niskanen’s Center “Defending the Open Society” series. Read more here. You can read more from Robert S. Taylor on…
June 15, 2019
Economic Inequality: Three Takes
In June 1963, when Nathaniel Branden published a piece on “Inherited Wealth” in The Objectivist Newsletter, he was still the beloved disciple of Ayn Rand, who reprinted his piece in…
June 11, 2019
Randians vs. Stoics
Stoicism, particularly in its ethical and political aspects (a defense of individual self-mastery on the one hand and commercial society on the other – for the latter, see, e.g., Cicero’s…
June 11, 2019
The Future of Public Goods?
In which I make some predictions. Which is always dangerous, especially if you are making predictions about the future…..
June 07, 2019
Does Small-r Republicanism Rest on a Mistake?
The Niskanen Center has spun its weekly wheel of ideology, and this week landed on small-r, Pettit-style republicanism. There’s a great deal wrong with this theory. Here I’ll focus on…