The American Enterprise Institute’s Values and Capitalism Project has produced some terrific short monographs on important public issues. The booklets are intended for use by college professors in undergraduate (especially introductory) college courses.
AEI President Arthur Brooks’ idea for the …
Then sign up for the Online Law Scholars Conference happening in May and learn from established scholars in the conservative and libertarian legal academic community. This link contains all of the information you need.…
One area I have found of interest over the years is evolutionary psychology. Friedrich Hayek first exposed me to the discipline, which at that time was known as sociobiology. While it has certainly been criticized, it is often the only …
From Edward Lopez’s just posted review of Lawrence Lessig’s Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Game Plan to Stop It:
This book advances the above core premise to argue that campaign finance has recently fastened
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One common assertion arising from the onset and resolution of the 2008 financial crisis is the belief that it proves the purported need and propriety of the government acting in a swift and discretionary manner and not have its hands …
Constitutionalism is in crisis—obviously in Europe, more arguably in America. High on the list of intellectual breakthroughs that might help us sort through our contemporary confusions is Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel’s Philosophy of Right—to my mind, the best book …
Over at Cato Unbound, David Friedman commented on Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi’s essay arguing that concerns of social justice informed the classical liberals. Friedman, who is sympathetic to utilitarianism, argues that Zwolinksi and Tomasi do no sufficient emphasize the …
This week sees the unfolding in England of two long-running legal sagas upon whose outcomes the future of the rule of law there could depend. And not just there, its future could be affected throughout Europe and even beyond.
The …
The contributions to the Spirit of 1798 exchange are just terrific. They raise some very deep and to my mind disturbing questions.
One of them is suggested by James Read’s admirably hard-headed post: with the (arguable) exception of 1798, can …
In my last post on Bleeding Heart Libertarianism, I described how I have always been a Bleeding Heart type of Libertarian. Today, I want to describe where I am now on this issue.
Somewhere along the line – I think …
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