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Silence and Leftist Professors
No, I’m not talking about silent leftist professors. Indeed, most professors – myself included – have trouble staying silent whether they are on the left, right, or anyplace else (I’m not a big fan of...
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A couple of reading suggestions given the Wilson-Jesus86 debate
1. Matt Ridley. The Origins of Virtue (and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments) 2. Robert Nozick. “The Genealogy of Ethics” in his book Invariances. I would enjoy hearing Sven’s thoughts on...
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Property and Serfdom
The distinguishing characteristic of classical liberalism from other liberalisms is its view of property rights. On the classical liberal account, a distribution of property is just if it is a...
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Poll I: I would live my life…
Take Our Poll Tagged: experience machine, Poll, result machine, Robert Nozick, tranformation machine
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On Vegetarianism
Peter Singer’s views on population control have come up on this blog quite recently. Singer is also, of course, a hardcore animal rights-er who believes that all animals (at least, vertebrates) have...
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Redistribution of Grades
Andrew Breitbart has posted a video (HT: Phil Arena) showing liberal, pro-income-redistribution students rejecting out of hand the concept of redistributing grade point averages (GPAs) from the...
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“Neoclassical Liberalism,” Property Rights, and Capitalism
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi have a thought-provoking piece entitled, “A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarianism,” in the latest Cato Unbound. They criticize postwar libertarians (specifically...
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My Introduction to Political Philosophy Final Exam
Here are the essay questions from the final exam I gave in “Introduction to Political Philosophy” last semester. How would you answer these questions? 3.1 Rights to Property Answer one of these...
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Matt Zwolinski on Property Rights
Matt Zwolinski of Bleeding Heart Libertarians has written an excellent series of posts on the libertarian justification of property rights. Here‘s the latest. The first and most important thing to note...
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Sen, Nozick, and “Breaking Bad”
A moral dilemma from the popular TV show “Breaking Bad” illustrates a critique Amartya Sen made of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia and the reason why the refutation fails. In On Ethics and...
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A Libertarian Case for Compulsory Military Service?!
You have to admire the sheer gall of a man who defends compulsory national service on libertarian grounds. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry does so in this month’s Cato Unbound. What really got my attention was...
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