March 06, 2011
What is Liberty?
If you were to catalog all the ways people use the words “freedom” or “liberty”, you’d probably come up with a pretty long list. (Here’s an experiment: Search your iTunes…
March 06, 2011
Welcome, Fernando Tesón!
It is my great pleasure to announce that our little group of bloggers has added a seventh member – Fernando Tesón, Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University's College…
March 06, 2011
Greetings
I wasn’t initially worried that this blog was launching while I was on a road trip; after all, surely a new political philosophy blog would take some time to warm…
March 05, 2011
Sobel on Nozickian Property Rights
Our friend David Sobel, over at PEA Soup, has a very nice post discussing what he takes to be a serious problem with the Nozickian approach to property rights (one…
March 05, 2011
On Bad Grounds to Reject Positive Liberty
I’m going to have a few posts on liberty. In particular, I will explain why the libertarian opposition to positive liberty is misguided. If you’re going to philosophize about liberty,…
March 05, 2011
Prompted by Wisconsin
At the risk of violating blog etiquette, I am not (for now, anyway) writing an introductory post. Suffice it to say that I agree with my co-bloggers that libertarianism and…