August 04, 2012
New Video on Democratic and Market Freedom
“Why do you need the right to decide how you spend your own money,” asks Jason Brennan. “You can vote!”
August 03, 2012
The Later Rawls’s Critique of Libertarianism
John Rawls was a critic of libertarianism. This much is well known. What is less well known is Rawls’s criticism of libertarianism in Political Liberalism (which I’m rereading in preparation…
August 02, 2012
Forgotten Libertarians of American History
The great historian of classical liberalism, Steve Davies, has an excellent new podcast on “Forgotten Libertarians of American History” (podcast and a somewhat garbled transcript available through the link). Davies…
August 02, 2012
Some Thought Experiments Involving Assassination
1. Suppose an evil demon appears before you and says, “I plan to kill hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians and destroy their country’s architecture unless you kill this one…
July 30, 2012
When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 5
David Gordon contributes to the C4SS spontaneous order symposium. A reply from me to all three commentators will follow, probably at the end of the week.
July 30, 2012
Liz Anderson on Social Democracy and Libertarianism
I just finished listening to Elizabeth Anderson’s Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, on “Tom Paine and the Ironies of Social Democracy.” It’s a great…