August 31, 2016
Nozick’s Method
A great deal of Anarchy, State, and Utopia is meant to respond to left-liberals. Left-liberals think that each person has an extensive set of negative civil liberties, i.e., rights against interference…
August 30, 2016
These Two Bumptious, Malicious White Dudes Say Adjuncts Aren’t Exploited
Just look at these smug privileged white dudes: While trillions of adjuncts have no access to peer-reviewed journals, these pilgarlics continue to assert their publishing privilege. Just recently, the soi-dissant Journal…
August 29, 2016
Rawls and Desert
I think John Rawls’s views on moral arbitrariness, as presented in A Theory Justice, make no sense. Rawls writes that inborn assets such as wealth, intelligence, and talent, should not…
August 29, 2016
Safe spaces and academic freedom
“We have work to do.” In light of the renewed attention to questions of “safe spaces” and academic freedom, I’ll repost the link to my long post on the topic…
August 26, 2016
The Fatal Conceit of Youthful Idealism
J.K. Rowling came down hard on Twitter two days ago, destroying the bonafides of orphanage volunteering programs (from here on out to be known as the “orphan industrial complex”), whereby…
August 24, 2016
How Can a Libertarian Say That? (On Incompetent Voters and Competent Market Agents)
Roughly 35% of my published work responds to problems of voter ignorance and irrationality. I sometimes get pushback from both libertarians and non-libertarians that goes roughly as follows: “Wait, so…