February 14, 2018
Toleration and Freedom From Harm
My new book, Toleration and Freedom From Harm: Liberalism Reconceived, is now available from Routledge and on Amazon. Regular readers of this blog will recognize some of the views I…
Posts filed under libertarianism
January 10, 2018
Class Act
Karl Marx once wrote: I do not claim to have discovered either the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me, bourgeois historians had…
January 03, 2018
Two New Publications
My chapter on “Anarchism and Libertarianism” is forthcoming in Nathan Jun, ed., Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2017), at the usual insane Brill price. In the chapter…
November 26, 2017
Pining for Murderous Dictators is not the Path to Liberty
You’d think the statement in my title should be obvious, but if you were wondering why it’s been so easy for so many supposed libertarians to flip over to the…
September 28, 2017
Libertarianism for Luck Egalitarians
Luck egalitarianism is, roughly, the view that inequalities in life prospects resulting from luck are unjust. (There’s a lot to nit pick about that characterization, but it’s a start.) If…
September 13, 2017
Horwitz review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains
The published version of my review of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains is now available at the Cato Journal. The main argument: “In the rest of this essay, I will briefly…