October 09, 2014
John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture Laws
John Oliver, as usual, is amazing here, following up on a terrific article in the Washington Post.
October 06, 2014
A Genuinely Liberal Approach to Religion in Politics
I’m honored to have the lead essay on Cato Unbound this month. In the essay, I lay out what I take to be a genuinely liberal approach to religion in…
October 04, 2014
The Contrarian Trap: The Source of the Liberty Movement’s Dark Side
If you have the stomach for it, you might consider reading Hans Hermann Hoppe’s recent attack on all left-libertarians (which I won’t link to). It is the most remarkable combination…
October 03, 2014
“That’s Not Real Socialism.”
I presented Why Not Capitalism? at the College of New Jersey this past week. In the book, during a parody of G. A. Cohen’s Why Not Socialism?, I describe what might happen…
September 30, 2014
Some links and podcasts of interest
Some links: John Hasnas, “Is There a Moral Duty to Obey the Law?” Social Philosophy and Policy Vol. 30, Winter 2013. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&pdftype=1&fid=9167194&jid=SOY&volumeId=30&issueId=1-2&aid=9167191 Hasnas says that “For most of my intellectual…
September 22, 2014
The Extraordinary Persistence of Social Hierarchy in Westeros
In my third and final post on the political economy of Westeros, I want to address a question that has bothered me about A Song of Ice and Fire since…