What is a Libertarian?
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Political Theory
Essay on the Nature of Liberty in French
My address to the 60th meeting of the Liberal International has been translated into French. It will come out soon in German, as well. English: Freedom Properly Understood French: Bien…
Our Brief in Defense of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Has Been Filed
Here it is. (There is a separate petition to reinstate the five additional plaintiffs. But the meat of the case is in this brief.)
Paper on Globalization and Governance
Coming Soon to an Academic Portuguese-Language Bookstore Near You! I gave a paper at a conference on governance at the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and it’s about to…
Capitalism, Free Trade, and Democracy
The quotes in this Washington Post story (“Shanghai’s Middle Class Launches Quiet, Meticulous Revolt“) tell a lot: “They can’t arrest everybody,” said Yao, a 58-year-old protester who asked that his…
My Old Dissertation Supervisor
When I went to Oxford for my doctoral studies, my first supervisor was John Gray. He provided some very competent critiques of my writing, as well as some very good…
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…
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,…
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…
Conference on Bruno Leoni
My presentation at the Istituto Bruno Leoni conference on Leoni’s thought The conference hall at the Collegio Carlo Alberto – Moncalieri (Torino) (I addressed four topics in my presentation: 1)…