May 02, 2017
Burn the Heretic!
Rebecca Tuvel, an untenured assistant professor at Rhodes College, recently published “In Defense of Transracialism,” at Hypatia, a feminist journal. In that article, she argues we have more or less…
May 01, 2017
Humanitarian non-intervention
Over the past two posts, I have explained why we should be skeptical of foreign military interventions. Historically, military interventions have extremely low success rates. And there are structural reasons…
April 26, 2017
The Why and How of Reasonable Disagreement
The Niskanen Center has posted my new essay on reasonable political disagreements. I explain both why we often mistakenly assume that our political disagreements are unreasonable and how to avoid…
April 24, 2017
Against intervention – ex ante / ex post
As I explained in my previous post, military interventions are almost never morally acceptable. The basic reason is relatively straightforward. Such interventions fail much more often than they succeed. And…
April 21, 2017
A government of laws, not son-in-laws
My new piece at Niskanen is up. (Yes. I know. But it sounds better that way.)
April 19, 2017
Beyond Obamacare: The Seven Percent Solution
ObamaCare is dead, long live — what? The House Republican plan achieved the rare feat of displeasing fellow conservatives almost as much as Democrats before dying stillborn. Does it follow,…