June 19, 2014
Is Living on the Dole Bad For You?
As a proponent of a UBI, I often encounter some version of the surfer objection: what if some people who could work instead spend their entire income allowance on surfing or drinking or…
Posts filed under left-libertarianism
June 17, 2014
Whose Left? Which Libertarianism?
Over at C4SS I’ve posted the abstract to a paper on Left-Libertarianism: Its Past, Its Present, Its Prospects that I’ll be presenting at the MANCEPT 2014 Workshop on the Current…
March 03, 2014
Toleration & Judging
My book, Toleration, is now available so I thought I would write up a few posts related to it. This first post will also be up on Polity’s blog. For…
January 31, 2014
Are Religious Conservatives Welcome on the Libertarian Left?
A number of my co-bloggers strongly identify with the libertarian left. Typically being a member of the libertarian left in the libertarian movement means holding that standard libertarian political views…
July 19, 2013
New SEP Entry on Thomas Paine
I was surprised – and pleased – to learn yesterday that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a new entry up on Thomas Paine. The entry came as a surprise because,…
June 10, 2013
If Freedom Is So Great, Why Won’t Our Masters Free Us?
Michael Lind asks a question. E. J. Dionne gives an answer. Over at C4SS I criticise both.