September 28, 2017
Libertarianism for Luck Egalitarians
Luck egalitarianism is, roughly, the view that inequalities in life prospects resulting from luck are unjust. (There’s a lot to nit pick about that characterization, but it’s a start.) If…
September 26, 2017
What Kneeling Athletes Reveal about Political Psychology
Today at the Princeton University Press blog, I have a post on the current controversy and what it tells us about how people “think” about politics. Some excerpts: …
September 24, 2017
The Case for Colonialism: Don’t retract, rebut…. and censure those who seek to silence.
In a recent paper entitled “The case for colonialism” Bruce Gilley argued that “Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the…
September 21, 2017
Black Liberty Matters
My new essay at Niskanen continues a lot of my longstanding themes from BHL posts.
September 19, 2017
Student Seminar on “Markets and Morality”
I’ll be hosting a student conference on “Markets and Morality” at The College of New Jersey in conjunction with the wonderful Institute for Humane Studies on Sept. 29th and 30th….
September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…