March 20, 2016
Basic Income Guarantee and the “Biggest Problem”
Can a BIG solve the BIGgest problem in the digital economy? This author thinks it might…
March 18, 2016
All Security is Private
Tip O’Neill, and many others, famously said “All politics is local.” Well, by the same token, all security is private. Or so I claim here. A warning: this account is…
March 18, 2016
A Dissenting View on Guns: Why Rights-Based Arguments Against Gun Control Fail
Bobby is a brilliant scientist. So brilliant, in fact, that he builds a functional atomic bomb in his garage. Of course, Bobby strictly adheres to the non-aggression principle, so he…
March 18, 2016
Do Universities Have a Fiduciary Duty to Fire Madjuncts?
My paper with Phil Magness on the costs of adjunct justice has caused quite a stir…with people who haven’t read it but who are inclined ex ante to deny the…
March 17, 2016
Inside Higher Ed on Our Adjunct Paper
Inside Higher Ed has a nice write up of my paper with Phil Magness on the cost of providing justice for adjuncts. They also solicited some responses from activists, which, alas,…
March 16, 2016
What is “the welfare state?” Thoughts on Matt Zwolinski’s recent post
Matt Zwolinski recently argued that opposition to the welfare state is not an essential feature of classical liberalism or libertarianism. He did so by making a libertarian case for state…