February 04, 2015
Get Vaccinated
More than 100 people have now been infected with measles as a result of a multi-state outbreak linked to Disneyland. Public officials have been eager to respond, and now it…
February 02, 2015
Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America
That’s the title of a recent paper of mine that is now forthcoming in Social Philosophy and Policy, as part of a conference and symposium coordinated by Mark LeBar. I have…
January 29, 2015
“The Origins of Radical Libertarianism in America”
If you’re an undergraduate or graduate student with interests in libertarianism, anarchism, and intellectual history, you might be interested in a Virtual Reading Group I’ll be running this Spring through…
January 29, 2015
Theism and Philosophical Left-Libertarianism
At a philosophy of religion conference last year, I met one of the great 40-something theistic philosophers, Trent Dougherty. Trent completed his MA at the University of Missouri, where he was…
January 29, 2015
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom book discount
Ahead of the US release of my new book, OUP has made a discount on it available. If you buy it here and use discount code ASFLYQ6 it will be…
January 27, 2015
Nathaniel Branden: What Happens When the Libertarian Movement Begins to Succeed?
If you’re a libertarian, that means you want to see the world move in a more libertarian direction, right? Well, maybe not. From the 1979 Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination Convention,…