July 22, 2019
Epistemic Liberalism and Open Borders
The following interview is republished from the blog at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London, a leading research center examining how formal and informal…
Posts filed under open borders
April 11, 2019
Open Borders and Self-Determination
One of the main philosophical arguments against free immigration that Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan seek to rebut in their excellent In Defense of Openness is an argument…
August 01, 2018
Denying Asylum ≠ Justifying Deportation; Open Borders ≠ Universal Asylum
A Facebook exchange today illustrated how some people conflate A) open borders with B) granting asylum to everyone. Or, perhaps, they conflate A) denying asylum to asylum seekers with B)…
March 22, 2017
Immigration Debate and New Center at University of San Diego
Last Thursday, the University of San Diego hosted a debate on immigration and human rights, featuring economist and Econlog blogger Bryan Caplan and philosopher Christopher Wellman of Washington University in…
March 16, 2016
Happy Open Borders Day: How to Argue for Immigration Restrictions
In honor of Open Borders Day, here is an excerpt from the current draft of Global Justice as Global Freedom, which Bas and I are writing for Oxford University Press. This excerpt comes…
February 12, 2016
Most Closed Borders Arguments Lead to Anti-Liberalism
One has to be careful when making an argument for closing borders. The problem is that many of the arguments people offer lead to conclusions they are not prepared to…