August 17, 2016
The Page 99 Test: Against Democracy
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford The Page 99 Test is a website that…
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June 21, 2016
National Partiality and the Rights of Foreigners
By Chris Freiman and Javier Hidalgo We claim that immigration restrictions and liberalism are incompatible. One response to our argument is that states have stronger obligations to their citizens than…
November 14, 2015
Fantasy Football Is Not A Crime
Apparently, playing fantasy football is considered “illegal gambling” in New York. Some of the debate concerns whether fantasy football involves more skill than luck and thus whether it should count…
October 28, 2015
Libertarians Can’t Believe in Closed Borders
Patrick Lynch wrote an interesting and provocative piece the other day arguing that immigration restrictions are consistent with libertarianism. An earlier post of mine explains why I disagree but I…
June 30, 2015
Philosophers on the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
Many of us are quite interested in marital policy for gays and lesbians, so I thought you might find it interesting to look at some short philosopher responses on the…
May 13, 2015
Today in the land of Magna Carta
“Liberty is the right to do everything the laws permit.” Montesquieu “[U]nder the Rule of Law the government is prevented from stultifying individual efforts by ad hoc action. Within the…