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Back to the Drawing Board explores libertarian philosophy and its application to controversial issues from the Left-libertarian perspective.

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  • An Official Goodbye

    Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 14:35

    Those of you who pay attention to this space may have noticed a substantial drop-off in the rate of postings on this blog. This has been a busy summer: I've been to North Carolina, Israel, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New York, with stops in Connecticut...

  • Me From the Past!

    Posted on Wednesday July 15th, 2009 at 15:11 in compensation, economics, legislation, justice, pollution, property rights

    So I was just alerted to the online availability of a brief presentation I gave at FEE's Young Scholars Colloquium last year, and I figured it would be worth posting here. I should note that the presentation was basically a response to not having en...

  • 200 Posts!

    Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 16:38

    Jeez...I can't believe that there are two hundred posts on this frikkin' thing. I guess I don't really have much to say about this, but I figured it should get some kind of acknowledgment. Thanks so much to all of the incredibly interesting and int...

  • How Climate Change Policy May Cause Economic Disruption

    Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 00:41 in climate change, economics, legislation

    A little while ago, I wrote a post discussing why I didn't think that a tax on emissions of greenhouse gases would result in an overall decrease in buying power spread across the economy. In that post, I focused on how a policy might work out if it ...

  • On the Two Functions of the Principles of Justice in A Theory of Justice

    Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 21:12 in equality, justice, distributive justice, ethical theory

    So the other day I finally started reading Rawls' A Theory of Justice. I'm going to spend a lot of time trying to feel this book out, since it's pretty darn important that I get it right. In this post I want to trace a single stream of Rawls' thoug...

  • Assorted Responses to Callahan on Value Theory

    Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 15:20 in intrinsic value, ethical theory, the morality debate

    IIn the comments section of my post replying to some of his earlier points, Gene Callahan advanced a number of counterarguments that I think are deserving of a response. Because Gene's comments are separate responses to specific points I made, this ...

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