CFP: Lockean Libertarianism

Billy Christmas (who was part of the same MANCEPT 2014 workshop as me (“The Current State of Libertarian Political Philosophy”) in September, and who also participated in the Molinari Society’s…

Community and Diversity in Cohen’s Socialist Utopia

Some excerpts/summary from a paper of mine, forthcoming in a symposium on Cohen’s Why Not Socialism? Lots of typos, I’m sure. In Why Not Socialism?, Cohen articulates a number of moral principles…

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…

On Attacking ISIS

Libertarians are rightly skeptical of military interventions. A simple reason is that military interventions tend to do more harm than good. This simple reason was enough to justify opposition to the…

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…

March 11, 2015