April 11, 2018
Welcome, Javier Hidalgo!
It’s a pleasure to welcome our newest addition to the blog – Javier Hidalgo! Javier is a philosopher at the University of Richmond who is doing a lot of terrifically…
April 10, 2018
Public Reason and Idealization
The basic idea behind the public reason project: To justify imposing some norm, law, policy, or rule P on reasonable people, you need to show that they have sufficient reason…
April 09, 2018
The Thin Blue Line Flag
If Black Lives Matter had made a flag like this, many people on the Right would be pissed, claiming they’ve defaced the flag. But when cops do it, it’s fine….
April 05, 2018
No Shit, Sherlock: What Pro-Life People Think
Roughly half the country apparently believes that abortion = baby murder.** Pro-choice people (including me): “Oh, yeah, we know that. We disagree. But we understand that they think killing a…
April 04, 2018
Antisocial Communitarianism: The Communitarian Defense of Tariffs
Communitarians prize community, belonging, and intra-group loyalty. But the things they are willing to do to their community members, in the name of promoting community, make them awful community members….
March 29, 2018
Toleration and Freedom from Harm
I announced my new book here about 6 weeks ago (here). I didn’t think to look at comments on that post because (1) not looking at comments on blog posts…