Yale Political Union
The debate last night at the Yale Political Union was enormous fun. The students were sharp, lively, and committed to reasoned debate, but managed to have light hearted fun at…
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Exit Rights and Social Contracts
My chapter on “No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice” from Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings (ed. by Hartmut Kliemt and Hardy Bouillon; London: Ashgate, 2008) is now available…
Steele on Shallowness Masquerading as Economics
A Note on the “Mises” Institute
Boudreaux on Globalization!!! Its Grreeaat!
I just got Don Boudreaux’s book Globalization. It’s a good read and full of evidence and clear-headed analysis.
To Yale for Free Trade, Toronto for Toleration
I will debate the topic “Resolved: Spread Democratic Liberalism through Free Trade” at the Yale Political Union tomorrow evening. Thursday I’ll be in Toronto for a conference on the moral,…
The Case for Property Rights in Fish
Today’s New York Times: Europe Takes Africaâ??s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow Fencing the Oceans: A Rights-Based Approach to Privatizing Fisheries
The Chickens Come Home
So many pixels have been spilled over the way that Lew Rockwell & Co. have slimed the libertarian movement. What more can be said? The evidence of truly ugly racist…
Just In Case….
I’ve gotten some emails, so rather than respond to all of them, I am posting a clarification: I am not quoted in this article from The New Republic. (To the…
No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice
My essay on the “exit closure” and the social contractarian theory of John Rawls just came out in a book edited by Hardy Bouillon and Hartmut Kliemt, Ordered Anarchy: Jasay…