Democracy is a political system that empowers the masses, but at the same time incentivizes them (regardless of whether they have selfish or altruistic preferences) to be ignorant and irrational…
Speaking of Dan Russell, and speaking of self-ownership, if you don’t follow Dan’s work, you should. Here’s his webpage at the University of Arizona. Here’s his most recent book on…
I was lucky enough to spend yesterday in Tucson, talking with George Smith, Roderick Long, Kevin Vallier, Dan Russell, David Schmidtz, Charles Johnson and others about the history of libertarianism…
This pic is making its way around Facebook again. It’s not a new meme. See here. And here. And here. Sometimes people post this kind of thing just because they think…
Apropos Jason’s recent pair of posts on libertarianism and thought experiments, I thought readers might be interested in this debate between George Smith and David Friedman on the role of…
In this post, I give some limited reasons to think that classical liberals have to integrate a positive and normative conception of duty into an analysis of how to solve…