September 19, 2014
Let 16-Year-Olds Vote?
I have a piece on CNN today about whether we should follow Scotland and let 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds vote. It’s a subversive piece. It’s easy to read it as advocating that…
September 19, 2014
Self-Determination: Follow-up to Jason Brennan
The right of self-determination, despite the stirring rhetoric of its advocates, is profoundly illiberal. It is not a right against a state but a right to a state. It is…
September 19, 2014
Secession: A Brief Comment
The majority of Scots voted against secession. Was that good or bad? I dunno. But I want to discuss, briefly, whether we should see this as a gain or loss…
September 17, 2014
Check Your Privilege / Check Your Premises
Info on the next Molinari Society panel: Eastern APA, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Monday, 29 December 2014: Molinari Society, 1:30-4:30 p.m. [GIX-3, location TBA]: Libertarianism and Privilege chair: Roderick T. Long…
September 16, 2014
Basic Income Week
As part of Basic Income Week, the Basic Income Earth Network is running a series of AMA’s (Ask Me Anything) at Reddit. Readers of this blog might be particularly interested in…
September 15, 2014
When Civility Matters
Paul Krugman thinks that civility in discussion is not that important. Roughly stated, the idea is this. Sure, we should be polite and civil to our interlocutors, he writes, but…