Chapter 2 of Why Not Capitalism? features a complete, almost paragraph-by-paragraph, parody of Cohen’s Why Not Socialism?. I mimic his argument, writing style, and phrasing. I often just borrow paragraphs but switch…
Chapter 3 of Why Not Capitalism? explains why Cohen’s argument for the intrinsic moral superiority of socialism fails. Even though I agree with Cohen that we should not dumb down the…
Why Not Capitalism? should appear in paperback today. And, with it, the moral case for socialism dies. Capitalists and socialists used to duke it out on which system would work best in…
Why Not Capitalism? is now available on Kindle. The print editions should be available in a week or two. The six feverish days in which I wrote the first draft were…
Most libertarians have probably had something like the following conversation: COM: “Hey, I’ve got this neat idea for how to make the world a better place. It’s called communism! What do…
For those of you interested in the nonideal/ideal theory debate in political philosophy (the one Jacob has just written a lovely paper about), I thought I’d let you know that…