November 15, 2017
Truthiness and the Problems of Knowing, REALLY Knowing
Ten years ago, I published a piece in Public Choice. I wish I had been wrong. My claim was that we are pretty good at exposing falsehoods, but terrible and…
November 06, 2017
Anderson V. Munger Cage Match!!!
Okay, no. It was orderly and respectful. And she’s probably right. But Liz Anderson WAS kind enough to have a discussion/debate about her new book, Private Government. The video is…
October 30, 2017
Permissionless Innovation
Some time ago, I wrote this little piece. For Learn Liberty. Russ Roberts and I got to talk about it. A very interesting conversation, from my perspective. I always learn…
October 13, 2017
A Modest Proposal: Make Academics Who Call for Papers to be Retracted Do Their Jobs!
In the light of both the Gilley case (“The case for colonialism”) and the Tuvel case (“In Defense of Transracialism”) I’ve been thinking a lot about what an appropriate response…
October 13, 2017
Discussion of Bruce Gilley’s “The case for colonialism” over at Cato Unbound.
My essay “Foreign Rule and Colonial Fictions” is now up at Cato Unbound‘s new issue “Perspectives on Colonialism”. This was written as a response to the absolutely excellent lead paper by…
October 09, 2017
CFP: Social Trust
Call for Abstracts The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy Social Trust April 20th-21st, 2018 Keynote Speakers: Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania) and Ted Hinchman (University of…