August 18, 2016
Schleisser contra Brennan on Epistocracy, Sort Of
Eric Schleisser considers himself a fierce critic of Brennanism. I’m not so sure he his, because he often seems to be arguing against positions that are closely related to mine,…
August 18, 2016
Exploitation at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has just published a very heavily revised version of my[1] entry on “Exploitation.” In addition to covering relatively recent developments in the literature, the essay now contains an extended…
August 18, 2016
What if we just replaced the current immigration system with Trump’s ideology test?
I ask that question at Marketwatch today: As a TV celebrity, Donald Trump made a career out of pretending to be more successful than he really is. Now, as…
August 18, 2016
Private prisons
The Department of Justice report seems to provide enough evidence to justify ending federal contracting with private prison firms. But the gaps it identifies between public and private prisons are…
August 17, 2016
CHOICE Review of Markets Without Limits.
CHOICE–the magazine that libraries use to help them decide which new books they should purchase–has just published my short “review” of Markets Without Limits. It’s available here…. and has a…
August 17, 2016
The Page 99 Test: Against Democracy
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford The Page 99 Test is a website that…