April 21, 2014
Who Owns the Land?
A topical issue in the global justice literature is territory. Mainstream writers have taken the position that collective entities, including states, are the ultimate title holders of land and resources…
April 18, 2014
Crony Capitalism and Crony Communism
Most libertarians have probably had something like the following conversation: COM: “Hey, I’ve got this neat idea for how to make the world a better place. It’s called communism! What do…
April 16, 2014
“They’ll Mess It Up!”: Not an Objection to a Moral Theory
I posted some initial thoughts about lying to voters in a recent post. In my book The Ethics of Voting, I argue that most voting is wrongful. In the recent post, I…
April 16, 2014
The Duty to Lie to Stupid Voters
I’m writing a paper for an edited anthology on political ethics. I haven’t started writing it yet; I’ve just written an abstract for their proposal. But the paper will defend…
April 15, 2014
Two Concepts of Rules and Institutions
One of Rawls’s best papers is “Two Concepts of Rules”. I’m going to discuss one aspect of it here. I’m assuming you’ve read the paper, or at least read a good…
April 15, 2014
Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights – A Critique
It usually begins with Ayn Rand, wrote Jerome Tuccille back in 1972, and so it did with me. My first exposure to libertarianism was Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, and it didn’t take long…