Political Theory


Don’t Steal This Book: Buy It

I’ve written a review of Anthony de Jasay’s latest work, Justice and Its Surroundings, which is nothing less than brilliant. (It’s the book that’s brilliant, not the review.) When the…

Read More

Don’t Steal This Book: Buy It

I’ve written a review of Anthony de Jasay’s latest work, Justice and Its Surroundings, which is nothing less than brilliant. (It’s the book that’s brilliant, not the review.) When the…

Read More

Don’t Steal This Book: Buy It

I’ve written a review of Anthony de Jasay’s latest work, Justice and Its Surroundings, which is nothing less than brilliant. (It’s the book that’s brilliant, not the review.) When the…

Read More

Don’t Steal This Book: Buy It

I’ve written a review of Anthony de Jasay’s latest work, Justice and Its Surroundings, which is nothing less than brilliant. (It’s the book that’s brilliant, not the review.) When the…

Read More

What Can One Say?

I just got the latest book from my old dissertation supervisor at Oxford University, John Gray. It’s called Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. Here’s an important passage:…

Read More

James Madison and Multiculturalism, Liberty and the City, War and Peace

As September 17 was Constitution Day, I traveled with my colleagues John Samples and Amy Mitchell to James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia (as one professor there said, “It’s not…

Read More

Palmer on Popper

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a thoughtful piece on Karl Popper, in which I have a nice little walk-on role.

Read More

More on Property

I’ve published a comment on a piece by David Bollier of the New America Foundation. You’ll have to read his essay and then mine, followed by his response. I should…

Read More

Policy Poppers

I’m giving a talk this morning on “Analytical Foundations of Journalism and Public Policy Analysis,” in which I will start out with a discussion of concepts and methods derived from…

Read More

Expect Another Robust Defense of Property

Junius has posted a thoughtful response to my defense of property. I’m going to write one more response to his fairly moderate critique , and then I’ll let it go…

Read More