Kevin Vallier tries to sort it out: On Hayek’s view, the UBI is required as…
Category: Political Philosophy
Otteson makes a Smithian case: What the free-enterprise system—Smith’s “obvious and simple system of natural…
David Schmidtz talks with Russ Roberts about Rawls, Nozick, and Justice. MP3 file here.
I liked Julian’s observation that legislated extensions of copyright terms are more like theft than…
On Tim Lee’s blog as “bottom-up liberalism”. Tim’s right that liberals have internalized a fair number…
From Herb Gintis’ excellent review of the lately-departed G.A. Cohen’s Why Not Socialism?: Cohen argues…
I’ve been meaning to blog about William Easterly’s exchange with Amnesty International about the notion…
Here is a point that I’m sure I’ve made before but I want to make…
Folks are loose with ‘fascism’. The cops are fascists because they’re cops. Bush was a…
This WSJ piece nicely illustrates the difference between the permanent apparatus of the state and…