April 08, 2014
Welcome, Chris Freiman!
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve added another blogger to our rolls. Christopher Freiman, who recently wrote a nice piece for us on Vote Markets, will join us as a regular…
April 08, 2014
10 Questions Libertarians Can’t Answer, and Hope You Won’t Ask!
Libertarianism philosophy is like a cockroach that scurries away once you shine the light of reason on it. Here are 10 hard questions libertarians can’t answer. 1. Which Koch brother…
April 07, 2014
Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? Ideal Theory Conference, April 25th-26th, 2014
For those of you interested in the nonideal/ideal theory debate in political philosophy (the one Jacob has just written a lovely paper about), I thought I’d let you know that…
April 07, 2014
“There Is No Such Thing As Ideal Theory”
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
April 07, 2014
Democratic Governments Can’t Oppress Us Because the Government Is Us!
(Meme by Matt Zwolinski) I know Salon only employs fools and knaves, but I did not expect to see them publish something as silly as this: Rand Paul’s brand of…
April 04, 2014
Political Science and the Obvious
Robert Wenzel expresses incredulity at my recent post on campaign expenditures. (He doesn’t indicate whether he read any of the papers I linked to.) Wenzel writes: Aside from the question of…