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Some of my writings |
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Thinking Our Anger Why U.S. military policy on civilian casualties is philosophically indefensible. |
Equality: The Unknown Ideal Why libertarians are the only real egalitarians. |
Privatization, Viking Style: Model or Misfortune? A reply to Jared Diamond�s critique of stateless medieval Iceland. |
Civil Society in Ancient Greece: The Case of Athens Why the Greeks were more libertarian than you think. |
Why Does Justice Have Good Consequences? Hint: it has nothing to do with utilitarianism. |
The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights Why you have the right to copy all my stuff. |
Two Cheers for Modernity What the medievals and the postmoderns got right. |
Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved? (with Charles W. Johnson) Why we should put the feminism back in libertarian feminism. |
My Libertarian Life If not the reasons, at least the causes. |
Herbert Spencer: Libertarian Prophet Why Spencer was right (PDF file). |
Herbert Spencer: The Defamation Continues Why there really is, believe it or not, a difference between libertarians and Nazis. See also: Defaming Herbert Spencer? A Reply to Edwin Black and Too Awful to Read? Susan Jacoby on Herbert Spencer |
Kucinich and the Politics of Nonviolence How politics corrupts language. See also: Separation Anxiety |
Rituals of Freedom: Austro-Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism Why the real Chinese libertarians were the Confucians, not the Taoists (PDF file; see also the shorter published version). |
Robert Nozick: Philosopher of Liberty Why Nozick�s libertarianism is not �without foundations.� |
Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman Why Friedman�s �Methodology of Positive Economics� is positively wrong (PDF file). |
R. G. Collingwood: Historicist or Praxeologist? Some of each, is the answer (PDF file). |
Thinking Beyond the Next Election: A Strategy for Victory Why a vote for a third party is not a wasted vote. |
Review of Leland Yeager�s Ethics As Social Science Why utilitarianism and empiricism are self-defeating (PDF file). |
Review of Anthony de Jasay�s Justice and Its Surroundings Why the state is either unnecessary or impossible. |
Review of Deborah Achtenberg�s Cognition of Value in Aristotle�s Ethics Why Aristotle is right as usual (PDF file). |
Other online articles in Formulations: Constitutional design, natural law, anarcho-capitalism, and more. |
Still more online articles at Austro-Athenian Empire: Miscellaneous gassing � I mean, insightful commentary � on various topics. |
Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand
Why Ayn Rand should have been more of an Aristotelean. |
Free Choice and Indeterminism in Aristotle and Later Antiquity My Ph.D. dissertation. Great beach fare! |
Wittgenstein, Austrian Economics, and the Logic of Action Why the laws of economics are a priori. An early draft (PDF file). |
Journal of Libertarian Studies content summaries Brief descriptions of each issue that I edited. |