March 28, 2016
The Moral Presumption in Favor of Free Trade
In chapter 9 of Global Justice as Global Freedom, Bas van der Vossen and I defend free trade from various attacks from various philosophers. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of…
March 26, 2016
Why the Adjuncts’ Rights Movement is Anti-Social Justice
Our paper on adjuncts is making a big splash. So far, no one has really disputed the argument. Instead, they focus on our character, about what it says about us that…
March 25, 2016
Upcoming Panels on International Law and Prison Reform
Two panels organised by the Center for a Stateless Society are coming up at two different conferences next week, bringing a left-libertarian market-anarchist perspective to international relations and prison reform….
March 25, 2016
Did Administrative Bloat Cause Adjunctification?
Phil weighs in, using data and evidence*, here. Some of his main points: US Department of Education data indicates that the full-time faculty to student ratio has remained almost constant…
March 22, 2016
Moral Intuitions and Regulation of Surrogacy
A gestational surrogate in California is currently suing the man who hired her for custody of at least one of the triplets she delivered in March of this year. She…
March 21, 2016
You’re Probably Worse than a Price Gouger
But you probably don’t believe it. In this video of my Hayek Lecture at Duke Univesity, I explain why.