When All Else Fails Is Out!

I’m pleased to report my ninth book, When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice is now out with Princeton University Press. Read chapter one here. Kit Wellman’s…

The Purpose of Political Philosophy Is to Rationalize Evil

I deleted this section from an earlier draft of When All Else Fails. But this still seems like an apt theory to me: the de re if not de dicto goal…

When Non-Violence Isn’t Enough at Reason

Today at Reason, I have a longer write-up summarizing some of the main moves I make in When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice. Read it here. If…

Javier Hidalgo’s Unjust Borders: How to Respond to Wrongful Border Policy

As Bryan Caplan says, a policy of open borders–or something close to it–is the liberal, libertarian, utilitarian, egalitarian, humane, economically sound way to double world product. Unlike many pie in the…

December 04, 2018

Some Links

I’m interviewed about In Defense of Openness at the Libertarian Christian Podcast. “When the State Is Unjust, Citizens May Use Justifiable Violence“: An introduction to my forthcoming book When All Else Fails…

November 26, 2018

Would More Representative Voting Favor the Democrats? Not Quite

Before, during, and after the election, many of the Democrats in my Facebook feed keep complaining that the current districting system is unfair and leads to gerrymandering and overrepresentation of…

December 11, 2018