June 11, 2014
Abolish the (NBA) Draft!
(Disclaimer: this post has nothing to with politics, but as you’ll see, it does connect to issues of fairness and freedom. I’m just hoping that some BHL readers are sports…
June 11, 2014
Autonomy, Property, and Manners: Sitting in Darwin’s Waiting Room
Some facts, which may or may not be actual “facts,” but it’s a story. (I saw it here, btw). The set-up: My friend was at a house with three other…
June 09, 2014
Thomas Piketty’s Problematic Political Philosophy Part IV: Inequality and Transparency
We come to the normative argument that Piketty regards as the most important: that the great and increasing amount of wealth inequality is too easy to hide and so makes…
June 08, 2014
Why Not Capitalism?: Now on Kindle
Why Not Capitalism? is now available on Kindle. The print editions should be available in a week or two. The six feverish days in which I wrote the first draft were…
June 07, 2014
The Drug Debate Remains Frustrating
The New York Times seems to have made up its mind: pot should be illegal. It has recently run pieces that suggest things in Colorado are going very bad indeed since…
June 06, 2014
Blogging the Annual Review of Political Science: Hug
(See the introduction to and explanation of this series of posts.) Many kinds of political science data are messy. Demographers get to aggregate, e.g., births and deaths: pretty clear individual-level…