February 22, 2015
Our Universities Have Gone {ableist slur}!
At first I honestly thought that this was a satire, and not a very well-conceived one. Satire, to be effective, has to be somewhat plausible, at least at the outset….
February 19, 2015
Parental Rights and the Obligation to Care
Murray Rothbard famously argued that parents have the right to neglect or abandon their children because they have acquired no obligation to care for them. In my forthcoming book, I…
February 19, 2015
Piketty, Returns to Capital, and Public Pension Privatization
One of the more common complaints about Piketty’s model of capital inequality in Capital in the 21st Century is that it does not properly account for diminishing returns to the accumulation of…
February 19, 2015
Book offer for students
I have some extra copies of books to which I contributed sitting around the office. Anthony Laden and David Owen, eds., Multiculturalism and Political Theory James Fleming and Jacob T….
February 18, 2015
College Speech Codes: A Quick Critique
This Slate article has been making the rounds. It argues that campus speech codes are defensible in large part because college kids really are still kids, in a way. They have…
February 13, 2015
Oh, To Be In Duluth Now That February’s There
I’m giving a talk on left-libertarianism at the University of Minnesota-Duluth at the end of the month; details here.