September 14, 2018
Puzzles about College
Universities ostensibly aim to promote learning and critical thinking. This is one reason I wanted to become a professor—I share that aim. And this seems to be what most college professors…
September 14, 2018
Hassoun’s Argument for Global Redistribution
In In Defense of Openness, Bas and I wonder why so much of the global justice literature defends the opposite conclusions of development economics. Philosophers ignore or more often denigrate property…
September 13, 2018
Looking for Daylight: Minarchist Strategy’s Missteps
Reason magazine editors Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward have recently debated the question of minarchism (i.e., minimal government) vs. free-market anarchism. As an anarchist, I’m obviously on Mangu-Ward’s side of…
September 13, 2018
The Single-Entry Moral Bookkeeping of Ethical Opposition to “Price Gouging”
Having spent a lot of time explaining why we should allow prices to move freely during emergencies, I have found that people sympathetic to “anti-gouging” laws will sometimes concede the…
September 13, 2018
In Defense of Openness: Excerpt
I’m pleased to announced In Defense of Openness is now available. Here’s the blurb: The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory,…
September 12, 2018
Reign of Fire
Are the wildfires that have been devastating California a gift from government? So argues William Finnegan in a recent article, “California Burning.” According to Finnegan, the seeds of disaster were…