Tag: libertarianism

• Social Justice without Nationalism

  23 days ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  I started a version of this post a couple weeks ago, but since then the dispute between libertarians about the place of "social justice" in their philosophy has become white-hot, and I might as well jump in. The debate kicked off with the responses to Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi's lead essay in ... Read More

• More on the Fight over the Cato Institute

  3 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  I just can't help myself. It's remarkable how little I care about the outcome of the Koch-Cato standoff. Yet, having spent about half my professional life in politics at heavily Koch-influenced institutions, and about half at Cato, I can't stop thinking about this. All apologies to those of you ... Read More

• Tea Party vs. OWS: The psychology and ideology of responsibility

  7 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  One of the most robust findings in political psychology is that liberals tend to explain both poverty and wealth in terms of luck and the influence of social forces while conservatives tend to explain poverty and wealth in terms of effort and individual initiative. Here's a useful summary of the ... Read More

• Scanlon on libertarianism and the value of liberty

  7 months ago

  Will Wilkinson in The Moral Sciences Club

  T.M. Scanlon's response to my reply to his short essay on liberty and libertarianism offers a nice chance for me to add some of what I couldn't fit in my initial reply due to the word limit.  Scanlon writes: If we should set aside my second and third lines of argument, this seems to leave ... Read More