Tuesday, July 28, 2020

How to Care about the Disadvantaged

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You may be in the presence of mere virtue-signalers if they: wring their hands about police brutality without ever calling for repeal of all...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Available Now: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other

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My latest book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other , is now at Amazon.com . Enjoy!

Spinoza's Excommunication

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Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) On this day in 1656, 23-year-old Baruch Spinoza (Espinoza) was excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amst...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Feds Out of Portland

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Maybe no one would have noticed if Trump had sent in some FBI guys just to help guard the federal courthouse in Portland, but Trump lives by...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Prophetic Jewish Anti-Zionists

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Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise When Peter Beinart, a self-described liberal Zionist, abandoned the two-state resolution of the Israel-Palesti...
Monday, July 20, 2020

To Annex or Not to Annex -- Is the Question Moot?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains under a cloud of personal corruption, had more or less promised to annex some of the ...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Free Speech Is Sadly Controversial

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In the topsy-turvy world we live in, this otherwise unremarkable letter calling for respect for free speech, published in Harper's and ...

TGIF: Mises, Ryle, and Me

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Gilbert Ryle In 1949, the first year of Harry S. Truman's only elective presidential term, three things happened that were of huge impor...
Friday, July 03, 2020

There's Independence and There's Independence

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Happy Independence Day, although I prefer immanent to vicarious independence .

It's Beginning to Make Sense

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So now, if Trump says he's going to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, he'll be accused of turning tail before the Russians. I w...

Regarding the Latest in Russophobia

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I might believe the latest Russia story (about bounties for American scalps in Afghanistan) when I see a headline like this: Russian Fiscal ...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Police "Reform"

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Pete Quinones and I discussed so-called police reform on Pete's podcast. Listen to it here .
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga.

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This week the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga. , ruled 6-4 that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans work...
Friday, June 12, 2020

When "Defund the Police" Will Turn Serious

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Defunding the police is only a small part of only one side of the equation. All anti-vice laws must be erased, and the people, individually ...
Monday, May 25, 2020

About Those Shutdowns

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When the only tool in your toolkit is a blunt instrument , every problem looks like one that can be addressed only with a blunt instrument.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Replace Your Divots

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I am not, nor have I ever been, a golfer. I did golf once, just before the turn of the century, and I disliked it. Nevertheless, I live b...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Cuomo's Wager

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Pascal’s Wager is a familiar idea. It goes something like this: regardless of what you may think about the existence of God, rational cost-b...
Thursday, May 07, 2020

L’etat C’est Moi!

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Trump has vetoed Congress’s effort to keep him from going to war against Iran unilaterally. Nothing remarkable there. We’ve come to expect ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Radical Incrementalism?

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Hell, yes! Radical abolitionist anarchist libertarians can -- and I say ought to be -- incrementalists because, sorry, "abolition now!...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

FYI

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This is to let you know that I've started a new blog: The Logical Atheist . If the subject interests any of you, pay it a visit and join...
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