Some humor: Thanks to having served on a large number of search committees for post-docs and junior candidates, I have now have a pretty good sense of what the five…
From the new Libertarianism.org guide Political Philosophy: An Introduction, here’s a sample lecture on what rights are and why they are important. In the accompanying book, which you can download in…
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…
It’s come up a number of times around here that my approach to questions of normative political theory is not what gets referred to as “ideal theory,” and indeed that…
I sometimes report on BHL-relevant developments in philosophy journals, and I’ve just found a total gem of a piece that you should all be aware of. Philosopher Jonny Anomaly (yes,…
Political philosophers are often critical of “ideologues.” Ideologues are, presumably, those who advocate for a series of laws and policies based on a narrow set of political principles that mangle…