March 06, 2014
Global Justice and the Problem of Kleptocracies
The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of writing on global justice. Here I flag a flaw in this literature: its failure to address the emergence and…
March 06, 2014
Is There a Libertarian Position on Pornography?
Co-Authored by Steve Horwitz A first year student at Duke who is funding her undergraduate education with a career in pornography has identified herself as a libertarian, giving rise to…
March 04, 2014
Reasonable Libertarian Worries about Nudging
I thought readers of the blog might be interested in my recent contribution to a symposium on the Political Theology blog about “nudging.” I don’t say too much that will be new, but you…
March 03, 2014
Grotius and Me
My essay Hugo Grotius on War and the State has been posted on Liberty Matters, the online scholarly site of the Liberty Fund. I claim, among other things, that while Grotius’ jurisprudential method…
March 03, 2014
Toleration & Judging
My book, Toleration, is now available so I thought I would write up a few posts related to it. This first post will also be up on Polity’s blog. For…
February 25, 2014
No Art, No Liberty (a talk from ISFLC 2014)
On February 15th, my friend James Padilioni, Jr. and I gave a talk about art and liberty to the 2014 International Students for Liberty Conference. Wacky poltergeist-like technical problems prevented…