June 17, 2014
A coupla links
Chris MacDonald on the anti-homeless sidewalk spikes in London and Montreal: “This example nicely illustrates the difference between having a right to do something, and it being right to do…
June 16, 2014
Toleration, Cultures, International Issues, and Corporations
This is the fourth (and likely last) post in a series that explains a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
June 16, 2014
Happy Liberalism Day!
Today is Liberalism Day. More info at Liberalism Unrelinquished In the 17th and 18th centuries there was an ascendant cultural outlook that may be termed the liberal outlook. It was…
June 16, 2014
The Cohen Fallacy: Why Cohen’s and Rawls’s Arguments about Institutions Are, Well, Garbage
Chapter 3 of Why Not Capitalism? explains why Cohen’s argument for the intrinsic moral superiority of socialism fails. Even though I agree with Cohen that we should not dumb down the…
June 13, 2014
Don’t Compel People to Vote; Use a Voting Lottery Instead
I’m not in favor of a voting lottery. However, I think the best arguments for compulsory voting never succeed in justifying compulsory voting. Instead, at best, they justify replacing our…
June 13, 2014
Blogging the ARPS: Hadfield & Weingast
See the introduction to and explanation for this series of posts. Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast, Microfoundations of the Rule of Law I should note at the beginning…