Some of you may recall that I wrote a series of blog posts criticizing Rawls’s idea of a property-owning democracy and the arguments offered for it. I received enough good feedback…
I’m writing a paper for a conference in December on aggression. My paper is provisionally titled, “When May We Kill Government Agents?: Against the Special Immunity Thesis”. This will eventually…
Chapter Three–“Do Your Share or Else”–of Compulsory Voting: For and Against considers and rebuts a range of deontological arguments for compulsory voting. Many of these arguments attempt first to establish that there…
Here is an intellectual feast: a Podcast interview with Mark LeBar, at Free Thoughts, on the virtue of justice. In one hour you get an in-depth historical discussion of how…
See the introduction to and explanation of this series of posts. “Agent-Based Models,” Scott de Marchi and Scott E. Page I remember a time– 8 years ago? 10?– when I…
Those of you who have been following the various Facebook discussions about young libertarians and social media, cranky old libertarians telling them to get off their lawn, and the importance…