July 19, 2014
Weekend Links
Yet more evidence that exposure to markets ennobles, while socialism corrupts. The Other Cohen Fallacy isn’t just mistaken, but backwards. Is Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” hate speech, or just rather evil? Read…
July 17, 2014
This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops
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July 17, 2014
Yglesias on the Gold Standard
In a column at Vox yesterday morning, Matt Yglesias gave us 7 reasons to think a gold standard is a terrible idea. They are not all completely wrong (a low…
July 16, 2014
Rand on Kant: Let’s Use This as a Teaching Moment
In “Faith and Force,” Rand is not so nice to Kant: What Kant propounded was full, total, abject selflessness: he held that an action is moral only if you perform…
July 16, 2014
Craig Biddle’s Chart on Essential Moral Theories; Objectivist Strawmen
Do Objectivists actually believe all non-Objectivist philosophers are stupid and evil? This showed up on my Facebook feed just now. From The Objective Standard blog, an Objectivist website, here’s a list…
July 15, 2014
The Prospects for a Pro-Life Libertarianism
Imagine for the purposes of this post that personhood begins at conception, as many pro-lifers believe. Imagine further that you’re a standard self-ownership libertarian, who believes that all people, fetuses…