Search

August 28, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By John Hasnas

The common law can provide all rules necessary to sustain a peaceful, prosperous, liberal society.

August 19, 2024 • Springer

“Diversity and Group Performance,” Encyclopedia of Diversity, Springer, 2024

By Jason Brennan

August 19, 2024 • Routledge Books

“Evading and Aiding: The Moral Case Against Paying Taxes,” with Christopher Freiman and Jessica Flanigan, Extreme Philosophy, ed. Stephen Hetherington, Routledge (2024)

By Jason BrennanChristopher Freiman

August 18, 2024 • Reason Magazine

“Online Sports Betting Giants Place Their Bets Against Growing Rivals”

By Jason Brennan

Online sports betting companies are using the same legal playbook that once threatened their operations to eliminate competitors.

August 18, 2024 • Journal of Democracy

“Liberal Tolerance for an Illiberal, Intolerant Age”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Social Philosophy and Policy

“‘Get a Job and Pay More Taxes!’: What Utopophiles Must Say to the Western Poor”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Philosophy

“Friendship and Blackballing for Bad Beliefs”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Politics, Philosophy, and Economics

“Why Not Anarchism?”

By Jason BrennanChristopher Freiman

August 18, 2024 • Journal of Business Ethics

“Diversity for Justice vs. Diversity for Performance: Philosophical and Empirical Tensions,” Journal of Business Ethics 187: 433-447

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Journal des Libertés

“Les Contradictions Internes de la Democratie”

By Jason Brennan

August 18, 2024 • Oxford University Press

Immigration and Discrimination (Oxford University Press, 2024)

By Sahar Akhtar

Are states are morally permitted to use for their admission decisions and policies, and why?

August 18, 2024

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on […]

March 4, 2024 • Springer

“Equal Opportunity, Not Reparations” in the Handbook of Equality of Opportunity (2024)

By Thomas Mulligan

The thesis of this essay is that equal opportunity (EO) “strictly dominates” (in the game-theoretic sense) reparations. That is, (1) all the ways reparations would make our world more just […]

December 18, 2023

“Why Swing State Voting Is Not Effective Altruism: The Bad News about the Good News about Voting”

By Jason Brennan

December 18, 2023 • Review of Austrian Economics

“Behavioral Economics and the Problem of Altruism” The Review of Austrian Economics, December, 2023

By Sahar Akhtar

October 17, 2023 • Liberty Fund

“Slavery, Capitalism, and the New Moralism”

By Michael Douma

I see the New History of Capitalism, the 1619 project, and the increasing policing of historians’ language about slavery (enslaved persons, not slaves, etc) as allies in a kind of […]

August 20, 2023 • Routledge Books

Why is OK to Mind Your Own Business (Routledge, 2023)

By Justin Tosi

Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commencement speakers—often distilling the hopes of parents and four years of […]

August 19, 2023 • Routledge Books

“Vote Buying and Campaign Finance,” The Routledge Handbook of Commodification, ed. Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. Rouledge Press (2023)

By Jason BrennanChristopher Freiman

August 19, 2023 • Routledge Books

“Diversity Theorem Defenses of Democracy,” in The Epistemology of Democracy, ed. Hana Samarzija and Quassim Cassam. Routledge Press (2023)

By Jason Brennan

August 19, 2023 • Springer

“All Your Complaints about Business School Are Correct, but Liberal Arts Is No Better,” Debating the Legitimacy of Business Schools, ed. Anders Örtenblad and Riina Koris. Springer

By Jason Brennan

July 20, 2022 • Inquiry

“A Bayesian Solution to Hallsson’s Puzzle”

By Thomas Mulligan

Politics is rife with motivated cognition. People do not dispassionately engage with the evidence when they form political beliefs; they interpret it selectively, generating justifications for their desired conclusions and […]

June 24, 2022 • Routledge Books

Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests, 2nd Edition

By Jason BrennanPeter Jaworski

May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney?

May 13, 2022 • Social Choice and Welfare

“Optimizing political influence: a jury theorem with dynamic competence and dependence”

By Thomas Mulligan

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, formally, an ambiguity in the exercise of political influence. To wit: A voter might exert influence with an eye toward maximizing the […]

May 4, 2022 • SAGE Publishing

Why not anarchism?

By Jason Brennan

Recent debates over ideal theory have reinvigorated interest in the question of anarchy.

the statue of liberty in front of open sky

April 18, 2022 • Ethics

“Race Beyond our Borders: Is Racial and Ethnic Immigration Selection Always Morally Wrong?”

By Sahar Akhtar

March 28, 2022 • Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Why Paternalists Must Endorse Epistocracy

By Jason Brennan

Recent findings from psychology and behavioral economics suggest that we are “predictably irrational” in the pursuit of our interests.

March 24, 2022 • Brill Publishing

Estimating the Size of the Dutch-Speaking Slave Population of New York in the eighteenth Century

By Michael Douma

Historians of American slavery are well-aware that there were slaves in New Netherland before the Dutch colony’s surrender to the English in 1664.

February 9, 2022 • Project MUSE

Dutch-Speaking Runaway Slaves in New York and New Jersey, 1730–1825

By Michael Douma

The history of runaway slaves in America has suffered from both chronological and geographical limitations.

February 9, 2022 • Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture

“How East Meets West: Justice and Consequences in Confucian Meritocracy

By Thomas Mulligan

“Meritocracy” has historically been understood in two ways. The first is an an approach to governance. On this understanding, we seek to put meritorious (somehow defined) people into public office […]

January 25, 2022 • American Institute for Economic Research

What the Hell is Inflation Anyway?

By Michael Douma

Arguments about inflation are nothing new.