August 27, 2018
Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought
While this volume edited by Todd Henderson (Chicago law) will apparently not be out in hard copy for a couple of days, it’s now available electronically for those whose university…
August 20, 2018
Three new podcasts
The evolution of the ideas of liberty” and “Libertarian conceptions of order”, both recordings of talks I gave at a Cato University event this month. (There’s also a Mike Munger…
August 16, 2018
A “Ticket” to Capitalism….
I think we often miss the most basic consequentialist argument for capitalism. So I tried to make it here.
August 15, 2018
Academic Freedom is a Bipartisan Value
In an interview with Inside Higher Education, Jason Stanley makes a number of claims about academic freedom and support for free-market capitalism that are worth questioning. Stanley rightly calls out…
August 14, 2018
Socialism: What’s in a Word?
Chris Freiman, following a suggestion by Jason Brennan, has just published a good post on socialism, showing that socialists are not entitled to define socialism by its goals and aspirations,…
August 13, 2018
On “Real” Socialism
As children die of hunger in Venezuela, an old line is making a comeback: it’s not real socialism! One version of this reply alleges that socialism requires that workers directly…